Fitness

Look! My first 5K. This photo is part of Sweet Shot Tuesday. I chose it because it is meaningful to me. I’ve started to take more risks in 2010 — trying new experiences with my family, blogging about more personal things, challenging myself in new ways (such as this race), exercising more with friends and/or…

St. Patrick’s Day

With our Irish last name, we of course attended St. Patrick’s Day activities last week.  The parade and celebration at the State Historical Museum put me in touch with many warm, old acquaintances. [event specifics were given here.] Not that the people were old, but that I’ve known them for many years. Like this lovely person…

Quote of the Day

i heard my younger son and knew that he retained his cell unit as he made lunch today: ‘there is cytoplasm all over my hand.’ ‘the nucleus blew up. it’s mixing with the cytoplasm and i can’t find the ribosome.’ ‘behold, the end of humpty dumpty!’

More Spring Break

As I mentioned earlier, on Tuesday of Spring Break last week, we had families over for lunch. The funny thing was that there were a lot of kids. An average of 3.25 kids per adult. (And one family cancelled!)  I laid out carrot and celery sticks. I love carrot and celery sticks. By the end…

Spring break, part 2

3/4 of GAIN and I visited the rivers at their confluence (blogged about it here) Monday of Spring Break. We felt very small, to say the least. We hoped to see icebergs as we have in years past (I photographed some small ones here, or you might see bigger ones yourself from Walnut Woods State Park or…