Goal #54: Find an Organization to Volunteer For

(If you’d like to read more about my Goals project, click here.  If you’d like to read the actual list of goals, click here.) In December of 2009 I was asked by a friend to participate in an event with an organization called Girls on the Run.  It was emotional, extremely rewarding, and a beautiful [...]

Goals

Goal #28: Do Something Different with My Hair

(While I have been happily completing my goals, I have fallen behind on writing about them.  Today I play a little catch-up.  If you’d like to read more about my Goals project, click here.  If you’d like to read the actual list of goals, click here.) I should also tell you … this is a [...]

Goals, Something to Think About

Goal #40

She was wearing a green nightgown when she told him. It was a perfect-Minnesota-summer-Wednesday-night in June. It was 1980.  My father was out with his local league playing a game of softball.  My mother didn’t go.  She had been to the doctor earlier that day.  Softball was the last thing on her mind.  Instead, she [...]

Goal #63: Make Business Cards

My dad loves famous people. He loves when he meets famous people. He once met Kristi Yamaguchi’s husband – it was big news. He loves when he knows people who meet famous people.  One day I waited on Kirby Puckett at the Drive-In Restaurant and my dad talked about it for months. If you ever [...]

Spin Class

Goal #11: Create an Affirmation

To read about my 101 Goals in 1001 Days project click here. To see my other goals, click here. This was an accident. I originally planned a ceremonial conclusion to this goal. I planned to spend a secluded afternoon nestled in a hidden corner of beauty that would reveal itself to me when the time [...]

Body Image, Marriage, Michael, Newly Wed

Goal #23: Payoff Student Loans

My mother was going in for a procedure of some kind. Call me a bad daughter, but it’s times like those that I kind of like living across the country.  The distance fogs the reality, makes it easier to assume that everything will be fine.  You don’t have to go to the hospital.  You don’t [...]

Goal #47: Update My Website

I remember the first time I posted a story online. I had been working at the Biltmore Golf Course as a beer cart girl and hot dog stand extraordinaire (at the time it seemed like the most logical use of my Master’s Degree).  There were many things I loved about that job: I loved being [...]

Goal #25: Finish Joni’s Wedding Video

(To read about my 101 Goals in 1001 Days endeavor, click here.) (To read the full List of Goals, click here.) One night, over dinner, we decided we should be wedding videographers. It seemed like the perfect idea. We had a camera. We had Macs. And we saw how much money even the crappy wedding [...]

Goals, Michael, Wedding

Goal #41: New Car for Michael

(To read about my 101 Goals in 1001 Days endeavor, click here.) (To read the full List of Goals, click here.) Michael was having an affair. Of sorts. Spending every night in bed caressing the folds, breathing in the scent, embracing the smooth exterior. I felt alone. I felt neglected. I told him. I begged [...]

Goals, Michael, Money

Goal #29: Visit NSA

(To read about my 101 Goals in 1001 Days project go here). We were having a domestic incident. Michael was chasing me and I was screaming. It was a blood-curdling-deep-from-the-gut-heavy-on-the-shrill scream. Straight from the horror movies — fitting because I was truly horrified. I ran from the kitchen, I ran around the living room. I [...]

Becoming, Goals, Inspiration