Saturday I participated in the 5K for Hospice of St Mary's County . The forecast for the day was rain and thunderstorms, and fortunatel...
Learning from my past
Reading some of my old posts from when I started Weight Watchers in 2008 made me realize just how obsessed I was back then on getting to goa...
Riding The Range On A Fine Spring Weekend
I drove into White Pine County listening to Ranger Doug’s Classic Cowboy Coral, feeling thankful for Sirius radio when the Spanish language ...
Baseball - By Ken Burns
The week before baseball season began, I started to watch the Ken Burns documentary called Baseball . It traces the history of America's...
The rock climbing experience
Yes, that's me, climbing the wall today. I have never gone back and read any of my old posts. Until tonight. I wanted to find the post ...
30 weeks
How Far Along: 30 Weeks Size of baby: Baby Bangert is the size of a head of cabbage, almost 3 pounds, and a tad over 15.7 inches long f...
Pretty funny & Climbing the Rock
A comment left on my last post titled "Fewer candy bars, more vegetables": "On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:10 AM, hrgottlieb <I...
Rich Generosity
Even after all this time, The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the ...
I'm a happy girl again!
My coworkers are hysterical. This was my cubicle today (and it's a mess). The red flag means stay out. No one has been allowed to talk t...
Corkscrew Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo
To continue on with cooking my way through all of my cookbooks, the next meal I made came from Marlene Koch's Eat What You Love . I fir...
Fewer candy bars, more vegetables
My last post was titled "into every life a little rain must fall". That theme continued throughout the week and into my weekend. Y...
1st Annual Peter Mahon Memorial Trail Run/Walk 5K
Yesterday I completed the Peter Mahon Memorial 5K that was held at La Plata High School in La Plata, MD. I didn't realize until I recei...
Father of the Bride (1950)...and a reflection on mid-century Hollywood...
During World War II Hollywood churned out popular pictures both entertaining and patriotic, bolstering home front morale and earning enormou...
Slow Food Fast: Italian Sausage, Peppers and Onion Hoagies
Yesterday I posted about my goal of cooking my way through ALL of my cookbooks . I thought better about posting these recipes under my &quo...
29 weeks
(FYI: Thursday I was actually 30 weeks…but wanted to get my 29 week post up anyway!) How Far Along: 29 Weeks Size of baby: Baby Bangert...
Another 5K!
I am making HUGE strides in raising money for two walks that I am participating in: The March of Dimes March for Babies & GreatStrides ...
Setting Goals for 2011
I've done two 5K's in my life. I enrolled in both of them as a walker but I ended up running them. It was an amazing feeling compl...
Into every life a little rain must fall
The Rainy Day Written at the old home in Portland, Maine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains,and t...
(Not Quite) All About Bette...
Bette Davis was born 103 years ago on April 5 in Lowell, Massachusetts. She attended drama school as a young woman and made her Broadway deb...