I Don’t Care If You Judge Me; I Still Love ‘Titanic’

April 18, 2012

The first time I saw Titanic was in 1997 was in the tiny theater in downtown Charlevoix, and my mom staged a fight with my dad to get us there. Okay, it wasn’t exactly a fight; in retrospect, it was a highly phony argument that went on for about three sentences and culminated in my [...]

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Things I Still Don’t Know After 3 Years of Running

April 16, 2012

1. What my correct shoe size really is. 2. What my shoe-brand soulmate really is. It used to be Brooks…now I’m wearing Sauconys, of all things. Will they endure? 3. How to apply Body Glide to avoid chafing completely. We’re talking 1200 miles, give or take, a year for three years and yet my arms [...]

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Sometimes You Don’t Even Know Your Shoes Are Too Big

April 10, 2012

Sometimes after three years of running, you learn new and exciting things such as your shoes are the wrong size. Yeah! My shoes. They’ve been the wrong size. That may be part of what’s causing this blister issue. I just spent a lovely, lovely week in Florida on vacation with Jack and my parents and, [...]

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Occam’s Razor and the Case of the Wrong-Sized Insoles

April 4, 2012

So, for weeks now, I have been dealing with a seemingly endless chain of traded problems when it comes to my feet. First came the pain in my right foot that was linked to an undeniable weakness in my hips. I spent more than 20 days in a row doing hip exercises for 40+ minutes [...]

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What’s Your Sport?

March 27, 2012

Today I went to a physical therapy appointment to have my (relatively) new insoles “posted up,” which apparently means that you put stuff on the bottom to make them…better. Or higher. Or something. In my case, the biggest problem currently is that I have none of my former foot pain, but I have blisters on [...]

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8 Reasons I Don’t Care About Complainers Today

March 23, 2012

1. We’ve had such awesome weather this week. Since when do I get to walk around in shorts before April? I don’t know, never. It might be rainy today and tomorrow, but I’ll take a few days of rain for weather like this week. 2. The Hunger Games is finally out. I can’t believe the [...]

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