Congratulations - you survived the first 6 months of January! What a month January has been; filled with highs and lows, every emotion possible, and trying to get in a routine to set ourselves up for a happy 2026… hopefully . I've seen so many memes about January - how draining it's been, how hard and troubling it's been... just things happening that we did not plan to happen, either this early on in the year, or at all for that matter. I've definitely had my fair share of tr

I have had blogs on and off for years. As I go through seasons of my life, the blog did too. But because of that, I could never stick to one thing for my blog, which made content and consistency challenging. I’d be creative and get a new idea, and then 6 months later it would be completely different. But even in all of this “mess”, I knew I still wanted to write. I still wanted to share my life with the world, even if nothing ever came from it. I wanted to have memories 80 y

I have not always been a runner; I didn’t start running until my late 20s. Growing up, I couldn’t play sports in school due to a heart condition, so when I actually made the decision to start running, it was something I wasn’t even sure I could do. In fact, I only started running because I got a job at my local running store. I knew nothing about running—only that I needed a second job and that I’d learn anything and everything required to get it. I had the interview one day