19 May 2013

Fishing on the Niagara River (Or “It’s Possible I’m the Fish Whisperer and Never Even Knew It.”)

I’m not gonna lie, you guys.

When the Niagara Tourism & Convention Corporation invited me to go fishing on the Niagara River this past week, I was apprehensive. And by “apprehensive” I mean, “You want me to do WHAT NOW?”

It’s not that I’d never fished before.

In fact, I’d fished a lot as [...]

16 May 2013

Five Things I Learned While Driving Fifty-Billion Miles by Myself

I’m home, you guys!

It only took me twelve days, four states, two countries, six tanks of gas and fifty-billion miles.

Okay, so that’s not an exact mile count – I lost track somewhere after a billion. Plus, a large portion of my trip was spent driving through Ontario, so I was forced to [...]

17 Apr 2013

On Running and Fear and the Big, Bad, Horrible Things

On Monday evening, I sat down at my computer. I started reading news stories about the Boston Marathon bombing. And I cried.

Then I did something I’ve been meaning to do ever since I returned to the States this summer. Something I came close to doing a few times, but then I kept chickening [...]

14 Apr 2013

Weeklyish Challengey Thingie: Do Stuff on My Own

You know how I’m always going on and on about how awesome it is to do stuff solo, like traveling? And how it’s super awesome because you can eat potato chips for dinner or be a total nerd and nobody has to know?

That is, of course, until you blather on endlessly about it [...]

3 Jan 2013

Weeklyish Challengey Thingie: Boot Camp

This week I’m staying with friends in DC. Well, I’ll call them friends. But after this morning I’m not so sure.

You see, last night said friends convinced me to join them at their boot camp class. I wasn’t going to go. I really wasn’t. Because, seriously, you guys, there is nothing about the [...]