Last Saturday, September 10th, I knocked another one off the bucket list: 53. Run a 5K barefoot (9/10/11 – 27:04) Above is me heading toward the finish line. Also, something I’ve always wanted to do but did not actually have it on my bucket list, was to win a medal for something athletic. I’ve run cross…
By mile 60, Scott was vomiting and shaky. His hands dropped to his knees, then his knees dropped to the pavement. He collapsed by the side of the road, lying in his own sweat and spittle. Leah and his friends didn’t bother trying to help him up; they knew there was no voice in the…
My wife burst through our apartment door, out of breath. “Honey! Come here!” she shouted. I perked up, thinking something bad happened. She had gone down into our building’s basement to go for a walk on our basement “track” (which is just a big oval painted on the concrete). But I saw the look on…
When was the last time you witnessed something heartbreaking, yet entirely inspiring, and you struggled to get it out of your head for days? This past Sunday, one of my cousins held a graduation party. Some family members showed up, including my six-year old nephew and godson, Mason. Mason is a few months away from…
I follow a lot of entrepreneurs and fellow bloggers on Twitter and in Google Reader. I love watching others build their businesses and I am continually inspired to keep working on mine. Sometimes, when you follow successful people, you start to get a little frustrated. I started blogging in 2007 on a different type of…
