WRITING FOR MAGAZINES

Since I'm working on another article for RunMinnesota, I thought it would be fun to revisit the piece published last fall.

See the title RUNNING REVISITED?
That's me!

In February of 2012, after a decade of not running, I signed up with Team in Training to run a half marathon in memory of my late father and raise money for leukemia/lymphoma cancer research. 

Signing up was the easy part.

The rest looked like the picture below.

And I mean the girl dressed in yellow, in case you were confused.

Because I was "torturing myself for a good cause" (that's a quote from a friend of mine), I had a lot of support.


 

Here's a link to read the magazine on-line.  My article is on page 14.

http://runmdra.org/index.php/read-runminnesota/251-september--october-2012


The goal of the article was to inspire others to do the same--get in shape while raising money for worthy causes.

Instead, my body totally fell apart and I had to start all over again, rebuilding my hips and legs from step one.

That's what the article I'm currently writing is all about:  getting the right shoes, physical therapy, and (my favorite topic, of course) Pilates/yoga.





Which leads to my next question:
Why do so few men practice yoga?

And now I have to laugh at myself, because it's SO FREAKING HOT OUTSIDE that I haven't run in almost a week. 

An awesome friend sent this card to me once in college.
Best.  Card.  Ever.

But I have done yoga.  Indoors.  In air conditioning.  Where the sane people live.  :.)

DOES YOUR DOG HAVE THUNDERSTORM PHOBIA?

Mine does. 

When the thunder crashes...



her sanity dashes...



and she comes to me looking for relief.




To read more on the subject, here is a newspaper article I wrote for the Post-Bulletin:

http://www.postbulletin.com/life/lifestyles/pet-vet-you-can-help-your-pet-control-fear-of/article_a46b17fe-54ad-5031-997b-8796c200238a.html


Good luck and good day!