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"Eating for Life"
Don't eat me Once in a conversation with Dennis he said something that stuck with me.  He said that sometimes our lives feel like a countdown to the time when we actually become the people we’re supposed...
Oh Crap
After 2 years and 9 months we are finally ready to toilet train Lucas.  We’ve read “potty-training” information on the web ad-nauseum.  The truth is that we had been putting it off for...
Halloween 2010
This Halloween was pretty simple: a recycled bunny, a pirate and the parents.  Thank Goodness I wasn’t pregnant like last year and so I was able to go out with Lucas while Dennis stayed home...
A Day of Protest
  Award Winning Documentary "The Cove"   After watching the movie “The Cove” I went to their website to find more information and find how I could help.  The movie website has a link...
You can't save everyone but you got to save SOMEONE...
I was a fan of “Sea World”.  I had grown up watching dolphins both in the wild and in Orlando (when on vacation).  One of the most unforgettable experiences in my life involved a pod of wild...
Blazing Fast Visit to Puerto Rico
Once upon I time I got trained, by the Puerto Rico office of my company, to deliver an “Effective Business Writing” class.   Since I moved to Cincinnati, and the general offices, I trained...
Tri Again
About a month after I gave birth to Alan, I told Dennis that I was thinking about signing up to do the Chicago Triathlon.  In the past, I have used events, such as a triathlon, to motivate me to train...
Time Slipping Away
When I was little I was taught that you don’t bring work problems into the home.  Work should remain at work and bringing those home will be the equivalent of bringing home bad karma.  The way I...
Dennis & Lisa Dancing Date
I am a big fan of “So You Think You Can Dance” . I watch it all the way from the auditions and marvel at both the talent people have and the nerve others have.  Although I am too much of a “feeler” to...
Baby Balm
I was warned that the 2nd baby would do everything faster than the 1st.  I knew, in my mind, that Alan would crawl and walk and do all those things faster than Lucas did.  What I wasn’t prepared...