Decades ago, in my first job out of college, I worked for a fire protection company who decided to start a plumbing business as well, for a time. Plumbing is not for the weak of heart. During one of my three spring seasons in my first job, circa 1994, before leaving to start a familyContinue reading “Christmas in April”
Category Archives: Washington DC
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Kensington
Memory lane beckoned on a crisp December morning, as I made my way through minimal traffic and across the American Legion Bridge from Virginia to Maryland. With sound determination, I shut off the GPS and challenged myself to work through “muscle memory” in navigating the streets of upper Bethesda, through Chevy Chase and into lovelyContinue reading “Kensington”
Arlington Hillside
Snow Day Memories
Voyage of Life
Standing there with my students, closing in on the age I once was, I vividly remembered, somewhere in the Great State of New Hampshire circa 1983; a canoe trip and tipping over in very similar rapids filled with rocks. It was a little terrifying.
Arlington Hillside
“We didn’t want to stay but we just couldn’t seem to leave, as if somehow being close to what had happened would provide a way for us to help.”
Perseverance
In your novice marathon runner training, no one tells you that the 21 mile marker of a 26.2 mile marathon is actually the true half way point. The last 5.2 miles seem close to impossible in your exhaustion and psychological state of thinking you are almost there, when you really are not almost there at all