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Restaurant Style Salsa

Summer’s coming fast, and if that doesn’t conjure visions of fresh salsa and Negro Modelo, then you need to do some soul-searching.  Where’s your head at?  Get in the game.…

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April 25, 2017
Food, Recipes

Smoky Black Bean Soup

The hubs and I have a real thing for plantain chips lately.  If you haven’t tried them, they’re like extra thick starchy potato chips.  So yeah, it’s not like they’re…

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March 8, 2017
Fitness, Food, Travel, Fitness, & Meditation Blog, Running

Races: Traverse City Bayshore Half Marathon

  It’s Monday afternoon, Memorial Day, and although I’ve just now begun to move on to those tedious and slightly depressing “end of the weekend” chores… (you know – laundry,…

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May 30, 2017

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  • Fitness,  Food, Travel, Fitness, & Meditation Blog,  Running

    The View From the Back of the Pack

    January 26, 2017 /

    I dealt with a harsh reality this week.  Let me begin by acknowledging some harsh realities I’ve already been privy to.  1) I’m not the fastest runner in the world. 2) I’m not the fastest runner in Ohio.  3) I’m not the fastest runner in my own household.  4) Ok, let’s face it – I’m almost never the fastest runner in any group. I’m usually not the slowest either.  Until this week. I hadn’t been to our running club in well over a year, but after bumping into a few other runners at a race, Dan and I felt inspired to rejoin the group. Let me tell you what, January…

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    Potato Bread

    January 24, 2017 /

    So I needed to get my hands on a loaf of potato bread… I was enjoying a ritualistic and obsessive flip through all my past issues of Food Network magazine (which I hoard), and I found a breakfast casserole (here) that I reallllly wanted to make.  Ingredients added to shopping list – check!  I arrived at the grocery store and began crossing items off my list, but I was striking out on the potato bread. So I figured I could grab a potato and make some when I got home.  I’m sure another bread would have served my purposes just as well in lieu of actual potato bread.  I’m tempted to berate myself…

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    Race Review: Charleston Half Marathon

    January 22, 2017 /

    I may have made the often-questionable decision to live in Ohio, but I do, at least, have the common sense and decency to try to leave as often as possible during the winter months for destinations less cold, less brutal, and less gray.  My parents, my husband, and I have started a tradition of visiting a warmer destination for a half marathon every winter.  We’re in our third year now, and the list of races I want to run just keeps getting longer!  It’s still not as often as I’d like, but I have fantasies of a life in which I go wherever I want for as long as I want when…

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