Can you believe that we are more than halfway through May already? That next weekend is Memorial Day weekend? This weekend a lot of the D.C. colleges had their graduations. I can’t believe it’s already been three years since my son graduated from Dickinson. Time really does fly!
At least my flowers are enjoying all the April and May showers we’ve had!
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Now that it’s May, I really want to get some fun summer plans on my calendar. I know if I’m not deliberate about it, I’ll get stuck in the rut of my daily grind and feel resentful in July and August when everyone’s on vacation but me. One thing that I’ve come to look forward in the summer is a Farm To Fork Fondo ride.
Luckily for you, they have events from Maine to Kentucky and you can save 15% with coupon code COCO15.
Happy Mother’s Day! This week early daylight and spring weather made running irresistible–until windy rain made it … resistible. I mixed things up with a different running route and ran the Key Bridge-Memorial Bridge loop from my office in Georgetown.
Key Bridge-Memorial Bridge Loop
(with a loop-de-loop to use crosswalks)
On Easter weekend I learned that Rachel Held Evans, a progressive Christian author who took on the patriarchy, intolerance, and close-mindedness of the evangelical Christian church, was hospitalized in grave condition. In the ensuing days I checked her blog for the updates her husband so graciously posted, and on Saturday I learned from various Facebook postings that she had passed away.
From what her husband shared and what has been reported elsewhere, it sounds like a bad reaction to an antibiotic triggered seizures that, while initially “controlled” by a medically-induced coma, ultimately caused brain damage and led to her death.
This week I had a work retreat in Orlando, Florida. I laughed when my daughter asked if it was relaxing–it wasn’t that kind of retreat.
concrete jungle runrise
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