Emily’s bar and a different kind of contagion.
My friend Emily has worked in the bar industry for almost 20 years. She has worked in a half a dozen different bars and knows more about bar culture than anyone I know. At 5’ 2” and less than 100 lbs. soaking wet, you would not look at her and think that she could break […]
An old tradition and a good sport.
I didn’t grow up in a house with a ton of Christmas traditions – partly because when I was young we were travelling from Minnesota to California for Christmas. Those of you following this blog have read the post about my parents’ sweat and sacrifice for those trips! I imagine the Christmas traveling took all […]
Whispering makes it worse.
I woke up Monday with a scratchy throat. Not a great development for me on a coaching day, but I told myself “I feel fine. I FEEL FINE, dang it!”- like I usually do when I need to power through something. SO, I powered through my morning clients just fine. But by the afternoon, I […]
Colapinto and Re-entering the Race.
photo: RN 365 Franco Alejandro Colapinto is a 5’ 9” Argentinian. His mom is of Ukrainian descent and his dad is of Italian descent. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and at the age of 13 he won his first Argentine Championship. Less than a year later he moved to Italy by […]
Levi Strauss & 7 Iterations.
In 1853, a young 24 year old immigrant named Levi Strauss, settled in San Francisco. According to Kat Olvera, Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829 and moved to the East Coast of the United States in 1847, where he began to work for his brothers’ dry-goods business. Strauss made the move to San […]
3 things you don’t know you need to know from the Solar Maximum.
In a really sad song written by Neil Young (and also recorded by Johnny Cash) you will find the lyrics “Aurora borealis / The icy sky at night / Paddles cut the water / In a long and hurried flight …” The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, is a natural light display […]
A is for Apple – and a few other things.
As a lot of you know, my birthday is on Halloween. So in my mind, fall activities, festivities, and feasts are often tied to my birthday. My cute mom, knowing that I didn’t particularly like the scariness of Halloween but knowing that I did like the attention of a birthday, did her very best to […]
Aunt Judi and being bold.
Dictionary.com defines the word BOLD this way: My Aunt Judi embodied the word bold. She was the kind of person you noticed right away. She had a personality that filled the room, a big, colorful energy that was impossible to ignore. In a world where people often hold back or second-guess themselves, she stood out because she […]
Hi, I’m Sally, and I’m a Worrier.
I’ve been working from a high-rise hotel the last couple days and enjoying the view out my very large window – I can see tops of buildings, tiny cars, neighborhoods, trees, helicopters circling, and mountains in the distance. I was speaking with my sister yesterday via FaceTime and she asked me if I worried […]
Hot Ones and 4 takeaways.
I am for sure not the first one to write about this. And, I don’t even like hot sauce. Like, at all. But my sister Coleen recently got me into this YouTube show called Hot Ones. Four episodes in and I’m hooked. For the two of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, let […]
