Damn mountains
It’s hard. You are up you are down. Life is hard. It is not suppose to be easy. The hard (hills, or in my case and others Mountains) try to bring you down but you are suppose to be strong and learn...
View ArticleThe Gift of Perspective: How a Four-Mile Run Changed My Life
Two years ago I swore I’d never do one again. I’d just finished my third marathon and it had been one of the most physically taxing experiences of my life. Granted it was no 2009 Chicago Marathon,...
View ArticleThe Library
Silver Linings from the Patient – The Library April 30, 2013, Sixteenth Issue A mini-van rounds the corner and parks in front of a library. The man at the wheel exits the van and walks up the granite...
View ArticleThank you for the added inspiration!
I couldn’t be more HONORED to be involved in this event, and running on the same team – towards the same goals – as AMAZING people like Kathy Wenninhan. People like her are why I’m running in &...
View ArticleWhere Does Inspiration Come From?
Silver Linings from the Patient – Where Does Inspiration Come From? May 2, 2013, Seventeenth Issue Yesterday, after getting some cancer cut off my face, I was at lunch with some friends. One of those...
View ArticleMy Fitness Inspiration… My Fitspiration!
Yep, made that one up. Those of us who have jumped on any sort of fitness bandwagon have some amount of inspiration somewhere in us. It’s a little something I like to call fitspiration! While I’ve...
View ArticleEvery week is a milestone…… Going for 18 miles in the next couple weeks WOWZA!
Completed my first 1/2 marathon – Drake Relays Road Races! SLOW, but I finished. Thank you Nick Wooley and Elimir! Couldn’t have done it without them. I have recently connected up with Leah Newman...
View ArticleBad days…can be one of lifes best lessons :)
I am not only writing about my training for this fundraiser always……but how cancer has effected me in life, my way of thinking. Not only my way of thinking….but as I found out on Saturday, my 2...
View ArticleDrop a Pebble
Silver Linings from the Patient – Drop a Pebble May 08, 2013, Seventeenth Issue No one truly knows how long he or she gets to walk on this little blue marble. And people are always saying, “It’s a...
View Article13.1 mile run/the fear was not there……
Today was my long run day. Shorter than last weeks long run, but still LONG 13.1 miles. When I run I have mentioned I don’t listen to music. I love to run and hear the music of nature. The sounds you...
View ArticleWe all need a little spiderman
My weekend in Charlotte. It was the best time full of inspiration I needed. I realized even MORE how great of a program “Above and Beyond Cancer” I am involved in. Parts of it is what I have been...
View ArticleA Missed Man
Silver Linings from the Patient – A Missed Man June 13, 2013, Eighteenth Issue Happy Chemo Anniversary! A year ago today was my first chemo treatment. Wow, how has time flown! I got another year...
View ArticleBreach of Contract
A long time ago – twelve years – when I was just a baby in the world of cancer, I had a make-or-break moment. I had weathered a 10+ hour surgery, four and a half months of the strongest dose of the...
View ArticleSocks + Songs = Inspiration
Running 26.2 miles requires many things: strength, courage, determination, commitment, perseverance, focus. Like all of the most important things in our lives, running a marathon doesn’t come easy, you...
View ArticleBetter get back running…….with a little fun :)
So I have been having some foot pain grrrrrrr. Went to the doctor on Friday to check it out and she took a xray…..didn’t see anything. Told me to take it easy on it so I haven’t ran since Thursday....
View ArticleThe journey……the unexpected
I have been amazed by all the incredible people involved from day one when I began this journey. We all began at different times. All adding our team to the dream Steve and others put to reality when...
View ArticleA Butterfly Journey
After the diagnosis of cancer, words constantly circle in my head of so many things I want to say. Just like a butterfly you see flying in a garden of flowers is how my thoughts have become. Truth...
View ArticleSilver Linings from the Patient – E Pluribus Unum
Silver Linings from the Patient – E Pluribus Unum July 12, 2013, Nineteenth Issue If you have ever looked at the Seal of the United States of America, the eagle clutches a strip of ribbon with that...
View ArticleSilver Linings from the Patient – Every Blade of Grass
Silver Linings from the Patient – Every Blade of Grass July 12, 2013, Twentieth Issue Wow! My 20th issue. Man, how has time flown? Beats the alternative, doesn’t it? It is a popular saying, “The...
View ArticleLeg one….the journey to healing
So I thought I needed another leg to this million dollar marathon coast to coast for cancer. They had some legs not filled and one was in NE. Flat land mostly and heat. Why I decided to choose two? The...
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