My New Chimerical Kit

It’s been awhile since I wrote about flyball. And I’ve probably never mentioned flyball and our Belgian Malinois, Rebel, in the same sentence before… and with good reason.
Rebel’s Story
In 2006 it became rapidly apparent that we were going to have to adopt another dog to save our marriage. It was originally DH’s idea [...]

Recently, four fantastic little Moleskine notebooks showed up in my mailbox. These particular Moleskines are from the new Passions line. I am completely excited about these little books, and as always I opened the cover and filled in the very important “In case of loss…” information. But when I got to the [...]

I considered posting at the end of Week 1, but to be perfectly honest I was embarrassed… disappointed in myself even. With the impending 2nd dose of the region’s “snowpocalpyse” I hurried off to the gym the eve before we were supposed to get dumped on by snow. I was excited. I [...]

It’s no secret that I love Moleskine journals. It probably originally began because I wanted to use the same gorgeous journal that ilk such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin used. But once I opened my first journal and my pen hit the page, it was love at first stroke. [...]

I used to keep a dream journal. At it’s peak I was recording 3-4 dreams per night in it. It has definitely fallen by the wayside, but occasionally I wake up and remember something of one of my nocturnal stories.
Yesterday I woke up and the only thing I wanted to do was find [...]

Barefoot running, in theory, will allow your feet to work in the completely opposite way, with the ball of the foot striking first and then rolling back to the heel acting as a shock absorber for the rest of your leg.

On a whim I decided to try these Vibram Five Fingers. Actually, I decided after having seen a guy wearing them at our County fair and he didn’t get beaten up. I figured if he can walk around the County fair in these crazy looking shoes, then I should be able to wear them in public and not have too many problems. After a single day of wearing them around I was 100% sold!

I feel…. FANTASTIC!
After some serious thinking about this C25K program I got really scared that if I started on March 1st I was nearly positive that I’d fail… quit… or otherwise completely flop. So, I decided the best thing to do is start early; it’s now or never. So, if not March 1st [...]

Last year, Christina and I developed a blog meme that we called “Individually Collective Blogging” or ICB. We originally developed it in preparation for writing our Collective NaNovel for NaNoWriMo. And while collective noveling didn’t go as swimmingly as we had thought it would, collective blogging is still fantastic.
2010 should be a fun [...]

If you have ever taken a moment to peruse the pages of this blog you would have noticed a page called “Scrabble Tourney ‘09.” And if you happened to peruse it recently you would have noticed that it’s titled has been changed to “Scrabble Tourney ‘09 – Final Score!”. Well, folks, the results [...]

Last year, Christina and I developed a blog meme that we called “Individually Collective Blogging” or ICB. We originally developed it in preparation for writing our Collective NaNovel for NaNoWriMo. And while collective noveling didn’t go as swimmingly as we had thought it would, collective blogging is still fantastic.
2010 should be a fun [...]

Last year, Christina and I developed a blog meme that we called “Individually Collective Blogging” or ICB. We originally developed it in preparation for writing our Collective NaNovel for NaNoWriMo. And while collective noveling didn’t go as swimmingly as we had thought it would, collective blogging is still fantastic.
2010 should be a fun [...]

It’s been a little while since I posted an update. That’s because DH and I took a nice relaxing trip to Arkansas to visit my family for Christmas. Sure… it was reeeeaaaaal relaxing. NOT. And it’s all thanks to Delta Airline’s über-fail.
December 22, 2009: Leaving Dulles Airport
We were all scheduled to [...]

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that it was sort of an “unofficial” New Year’s Resolution for me to donate blood as many times as possible this year. I’m O-Negative… part of the 7% of the population (of the word, I guess) that has this blood type. We are the universal [...]

This year when I head to Arkansas for Christmas I will do so with my violin. My grandparents are getting older and I want to make sure that they are able to hear me play without having to travel the better part of 1,110 miles to hear it. However, the thought of traveling [...]

Normally I reserve my Bibliophile posts for book reviews. However, today’s Forgotten English Desk Calendar had the following as it’s daily entry:

do-withall
I cannot do-withall, I cannot help it. This phrase is not uncommon in early writers.
~ James Halliwell’s
A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth [...]