Last year, I made a commitment to myself to lose thirty pounds. I did not keep that commitment. Going into this year, I made the same commitment, and did nothing about it in January or February. On Wednesday February 29th, everything would change. I ate a salad at lunch. That salad would be the catalyst [...]
She was like most others, a little sexy, a little crazy and a whole lot of unpredictable. Irene could have been a real big mess for us. We were lucky, no trees fell on our house, no massive floods (though we live on high ground) and only the inconvenience of a power outage. And let [...]
Three and a half weeks ago, I took inventory of my goals for 2011 and realized that I was falling short on the most important one of the three. I’d set out to lose 30 pounds in January and hadn’t changed a thing about my lifestyle that would get me on track. I’ve been “on [...]
MapMyRide – B&A and BWI in Severna Park, MD. I have wanted to ride the entire length of the B&A and the BWI trails in one trip for about a year and a half. Earlier this week, my friend Ken emailed me suggesting that we ride the two trails and so we made a plan [...]
[picapp align="right" wrap="false" link="term=smiling+mouth&iid=280628" src="0277/fc1b8cd9-6180-4af9-a9f4-eaf0f684a55c.jpg?adImageId=8800724&imageId=280628" width="234" height="155" /] On a regular basis, I stop at the local Starbucks (which happens to be in the Safeway) for an Americano on the way to the office. Usually this is because I’ve failed to get up early enough to make coffee before leaving the house. There are two [...]