Call it the longest song title ever -- for me! One of my favorite, and now signature, blues tunes is now a stripped-down acoustic performance, thanks to my computer and super-basic recording skills. I need to get up to speed with recording high-quality YouTube and...
Our family spent the weekend cloaked in white. As the first major snowfall touched down sometime between midnight and 7 a.m. on Saturday, I braced for the unpredictable — workouts would be missed, dinner would be centered on warmth and convenience, and cabin fever would...
Like most people, I'm a sucker for goal-setting around this time of year. "I'll do this" or "I'll do that" frequently crosses my lips each January 1st. But like an estimated 92% of Americans, I usually fall short of said resolution/goal. So while I've set a...
Halloween. Just saying the name of the holiday makes me realize how far we've come since last year, when my then-2-year-old Nathan cried and stomped when we tried to put him in his Super-Man outfit! This Halloween, he decided to rotate between three costumes: Incredible Hulk, Superman (the same one he...
I'll be the first to admit the headline here is misleading. My two toddlers go to school four days a week, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. So I have ample time to train (just kidding!). Seriously, though, when my kids aren't with me (which is...
I can't believe summer's almost gone. Every year, just when I sink into the sun's warmth and start to appreciate outdoor runs, days at the park with the kids, and wearing white shorts, I see an e-mail blast declaring it's "back to school time" or...
You hear them on the radio, and see them gracing the covers of the most exclusive women’s magazines: Rocker moms. Articles about them are usually written in the vein of, “how P!nk is balancing diaper duty with recording” or “How mom-of-three Gwen Stefani makes time...