As I train for this next race – a 10k in October – I began to use a Heart Rate Monitor according to the guidelines in the Maffetone Method which requires a lower heart rate level than the standard 220-age equation we usually hear about. Dr. Maffetone calls his equation the “180 method” So far, I’ve done all my training without a heart...

For most of my life, the question “What are you going to do when you grow up?” has hounded me, nightmarishly.  Every week it was a different answer. My earliest recollection of what I wanted to be was a nun (I liked the “long dresses”).  Then I wanted to be a vet,  then a surgeon.  I wanted to be a teacher, a flight attendant, a tour...

I’m not that fussed about extending my life only to spend more years in a total care facility unable to control any of my bodily functions. Living longer for the sake of living longer holds no attraction for me. HOWEVER! Living longer so I can take even more advantage of what this marvelous world has to offer, and to better live out the life God has called...

Tom and I have been working hard on our finances lately.  We’ll we’ve been pretty intentional for about 5 years, but recently we’ve stepped it up as I’ve been learning about Biblical Finance – what God says about money and how that works today in our culture. It’s been quite an adventure! As I’ve moved forward with my...

I wasn’t always a big fan of technology.  Mostly it overwhelmed me, and I seemed to be doing fine without it.  Then I married a techie.  For our first Christmas I got a beautiful Canon SLR camera.  Pocket Instamatics overwhelmed me, so this was a pretty big jump. _ One day Tom came home with an early model of an MP3 Player. It was the size of a...