Melissa, Oh?

Ok, I know I have written about my favorite running store, TrySports, only about half a million times on here. Every time I go in there they find some way to amaze me.
I have written before about how great they are at fitting people for shoes. They really listen to what you have to say, [...]

Recently I picked up a new bike from REI. And then I tried to ride it. And that was very, very difficult, as you can read about here. Seeing as how I have a little race to run in 33 days, I figured safe is better than sorry. So I had Jeff take off my [...]

Running friends are invaluable. When I first started running, sometimes the only reason I would even get out there would be because it’d be rude to cancel on the friend waiting for me. I knew this about myself so I was constantly begging people to run with me to keep me on track.
Somewhere along the [...]

Today, I will admit I am a bit sad. One of my closest friends, my partner in crime on many occasions, is stopping by my house to pick up some of her things before she moves to Cincinnati this weekend. Things she left during craft days and bicycle days and writing days and painting days. [...]

But for some reason I have seen this rise in my friendships of late, male friendships to be exact, with cat people.
How does this happen?
I didn’t know men even liked cats, much less single men who live alone with them …
Ronnie has an excuse; he and his ex-wife got the cats together and of course [...]

Kevin and I hiked the Black Mountain Trail at Mount Mitchell last year. His goal was to hike the trail during winter. However, we ended up going the first day of spring – a fact that Jeff has never let us forget (although he and Ronnie bailed at the last minute last year; so what if Jeff [...]

This is by no means meant to be a synopsis of my year – in fact, I’m leaving out some of the biggest stuff on purpose. Just a few random tidbits about time and how we choose to pass it.
Thoughts on 2008:
- In February I decided to chop my hair off and go blonde, per [...]

It all started with a ring. A birthday gift from Erin, who sent me a very appropriate piece of jewelry to help me celebrate my 30th birthday: a ring, made from an M key on a typewriter. The perfect gift for a writer.
And me, deeming myself clever, had a conversation with my clever partner in [...]

I recently landed on a post by BusyDad about his tattoos and the story behind them. Inspired me to want to tell you about my own tattoos and their stories. I have 3 of them (or 4 or 5, depending on how you look at it), and like BusyDad, I like that I can easily [...]

So for the past 21 days, National Novel Writing Month has been consuming my brain. I am 34,000 words into my 50,000 word goal. As I write this my mind is really on a scene between Ryan and Erykah, two of my characters, and I’m trying to mediate their torn hearts.
I have surprisingly been able to keep [...]