And then there was silence

A new day dawns (at dawn)

Demoted

Happy Halloween!

Wordless Wednesday: Getting ready for Halloween

Well hello, blog
Nice to see you? How've you been? Anything new? (Ha! Obviously not).Sorry for not stopping by sooner. It's been a little crazy around here, and on top of that, I've just not been in a very writer-y kind of mood lately. Hope you understand. I do - finally - have a couple of posts brewing in my head, so I'll be back very soon. Looking forward to catching up some more. Kimberly

Third tri's a charm
On Saturday, I completed my third sprint triathlon, but this time with a few twists: - I was joined by two friends- It was the Mainiac Tri all the way up in Maine- The swim was in a 62-degree OCEANNow, before I go any further, I need to explain to what the ocean means to me. Its vastness and unpredictability, its swift currents and crashing waves, its odd and menacing marine life, represents a cornucopia of phobias. It the mother of all phobias, because it is so many things wrapped into one: open water, drowning, sharks and jellyfish. Undertows, riptides that pull you out to sea and waves that knock you off y

Summer's last hurrah
June 2009Peanut: Mom, remember last summer when we went to the beach, how fun that was?Me: I do. It was very fun.Peanut: Can we do that again this summer?Me: Absolutely. We'll go again this summer. I promise.September 2009My words to my daughter have been weighing heavily on me these last few weeks because as summer '09 drew to a close, I still had not fulfilled them. June was more or less a washout, with rain every weekend. July had a few good weekends, but we were only free one of them. I re