Finishing the Portland MARATHON 10-10-10 is all about endurance, not perfection, like life and faith
I finished it, but looking at my time, it seemed like I barely finished. I just did not get close to my goal. In fact, my finish time was 15 minutes slower than my first Portland Marathon, which was 11 years ago, and 45 minutes slower than last year. At first I...
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Reading work at Oregon State Penitentiary, in lieu of September’s Writers Connection meeting
This month’s Rolling Hills Writers Connection fourth Thursday of the month meeting will be a writing outreach event at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Thursday Sept. 23. We will be carpooling together, leaving at 4:30 p.m. from the church, and participants need to get...
Hang up and talk to your kid
So I am at the new yogurt shop called Yo Top It in West Linn on an outing with one of my 12-year-old twins, Wesley. I try to take each of my kids out individually, and with back to school here, I wanted to have this time with my seventh grader to talk. When we walk...
Adventure with Kids-Summer 2010 Week 10 – Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation Nature Park
For Week 10 and perhaps our final summer adventure with kids for 2010, we went local, to the Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation Nature Park outside of Beaverton. We asked another mom and her son, who is the same age as my twins, to join us for this trek trying...
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Adventure with Kids-Summer 2010 Week 9 – SEATTLE with the twins
So, my youngest was having some days camping with his grand parents and my twins had said they have never been to Seattle. We were trying to find a place to go, an adventure, with just the twins and me. I was feeling a bit sad that summer is close to over and I...
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Adventure with Kids – Summer 2010 Week 8- Commonwealth Lake Park with the cousins
When I asked my twins what they wanted to do for this week's adventure, they said hang with their cousins. But, I wanted to go to a new place, to adventure out. So we did what we often do--combine ideas. I told my sister that I wanted to get together and go someplace...
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