This is an old post that I wrote years back that didn’t make the cut. However, I re-read it and really liked where my heart was at with this one. So I’ve decided to share it. Hope it resonates… I am finishing up my Spinal Cord Injury Rehab rotation this week. We have been tasked with the …
I travelled to Seattle for Sally & Cresap’s wedding this weekend. It was a family Bonanza of magnanimous proportions. In the time that those two lovebirds have been together I have literally dated, broken up, dated again, married, divorced, and dated again. Those two are rock solid and it’s beautiful to see the life and …
I once won a scrabble game by making the word “runjogger.” Despite not actually being a real word, I was given the points for the sheer amazingness of the phrase. It has become my favorite way to cheer friends on in running events, and it’s what I say to myself when I’m dogging it. I …
When I was 16 years old my sociology teacher asked our class to write down on a piece of paper the number that we thought was the very worst age. I’ve thought back on that moment often and what a snot-nosed brat I was for my response. I confidently wrote “31.” The teacher, who might …
This week I was running up Big Mountain contemplating this past year. It has been exactly one year since I packed up my life and arrived in SLC. I can’t even believe the way time has passed. It feels like both an eternity and at the same time like absolutely no more than five minutes. …
I’m embarking upon my last day in the Urban Yurt of SLC and I am overcome with emotion just thinking about it. I could wax on poetically (well that’s a matter of opinion!), however at the end of the day all I can say is, “Damn am I gonna miss this place.” This apartment fit …
If you haven’t gotten the word by now, this has been a bittersweet year. I employed an astonishing amount of willpower early in the year, and thusly exhausted my reserves! So around January my willpower began to wane and a very astute friend of mine noticed. On a walk she said to me, “Anna, you …
This is an old Lakota saying and like most things in life, I love it because it aligns with my own sense of what is true and beautiful. Today I went for a walk up in the hills and as I headed up the mountain I felt energized and could easily see solutions to my …
…and I said yes! yes! yes! (to MUSCULOSKELETAL REHAB!) Actually, whenever I hear that song I will forever think of a trauma patient I once had who we bent over backwards to get into a rehab facility and then once we had achieved that stout, nigh impossible goal she vehemently refused to leave the hospital. …
Working on it though! Still figuring a lot of stuff out. Listened to this Brandi Carlile song and it sort of resonated with my feelings on divorce and what that’s been like: “I am a sturdy soul And there ain’t no shame In lying down in the bed you made Can you fight the urge …