A Boy In Trouble
We often use an acronym in our house: PITB (pronounced PITUB) for Pain In The Butt. It’s basically a G-rated version of PITA, which I am sure you can figure out. 99.9% of the time Read More …
Category: Essays
A Sincere Letter To the Women For Tri Board
Dear Women For Tri Board, I’ve been encouraged by people on Twitter to write you this letter, but I have to make it quick since you are meeting as I type. First, to be clear, Read More …
Resolutions Are Not For Me …. Baby Steps Work Better
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions, mostly because I have a 90% chance of failure. Resolutions don’t motivate me for long periods and as steadfast as I claim I am when I make them, the Read More …
Another Day, Another Death: Cyclists on The Rickenbacker Causeway
There was a fatal crash on the Rickenbacker causeway connecting Key Biscayne to mainland Miami today. This just happened, and my post is raw and crude yet wanting to bust out. Forgive my “steam” of Read More …
The First Wealth Is Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “the first wealth is health” sometime in the early 1800’s, and it is just a true today. For me, I didn’t realize how healthy and happy I was until it was temporarily Read More …
2014 In 12 Facebook Cover Photos
Almost every week of 2014, I changed the TriathlonMami Facebook page cover photo. As I sit here, on the eve of a new year, I am looking back at the pictures and remembering the good, and Read More …
The Inevitable Post On Cuba
“We are ‘Cubexicans’” exclaimed Fearless when recently asked where he was from. Joe and I burst into laughter. Cubexican is, of course, a made-up word. 100% of Joe’s family is from South Texas where it Read More …
Dreamer Takes A Hike
When I got news from my sponsor Got Chocolate Milk that I would be competing in Ironman Arizona, Joe and I decided to travel the week following the race. I got some looks from the boys’ school, but Read More …
Olay And My Fate Intersect At Oprah’s Life You Want Tour
This past August I was speaking to the good folks at Harpo Productions about Oprah’s Life You Want Tour. It was the biggest, most exciting thing that has happened to me in, ooooh, probably ever. When Read More …
Winners And Losers In A Miami Change of Address
I don’t write negative reviews. If a company sends me product I didn’t like, I simply don’t post and give them feedback directly. My readers know that what makes it on the blog are things Read More …
