Tag: walk

So Much I Don’t See.

I am so excited I can hardly breathe. It’s Friday night, April the 8th and I just got back from doing my first trial walk. As many of you know, I plan to go back to school this summer at Parsons in NY and walk every square mile of Manhattan

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‘..some fresh air to my soul’

I CAN’T REMEMBER by Paul McDonald Yeah, I choked up this morning as I walked out my door. It’s been the same routine for years now and it’s time I let it go. It’s sad enough to leave a place I’ve grown to love. But, I can’t take the same

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Chain letter

A chain letter came across my email a few years back, asking us to name the 25 things that most identified us. Here are mine: 1. Although I dearly love Atlanta, I’d love to live in NYC at least for a year. 2. My favorite art form is graffiti. When

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Quiet!

I have to laugh. When I tell friends about my trip this is, by far, the comment I hear most often: “A whole month B Y  Y O U R S E L F in that apartment!” Imagine: One whole month. Thirty days. Thirty nights. No husband. No children. No

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Clarify your Purpose

When a group of us gals got together for one of Tavey’s Enneagram classes, “Set Your Intentions” we were instructed to grab a magazine, scan its pages, and pull out things that interested us. We were given a small piece of poster board on which to assemble our finds. Here’s

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Blessings in disguise

As I mentioned in one of my previous writings, I took my son to New York just three months after 9/11. I remember asking friends if I should expose a ten-year-old to such a fresh visual reminder of horror. You see, my son is an avid historian. In my heart

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Away from my Desk

I have an assignment to design a logo for a children’s program at one of the malls here in Atlanta. After 20 years of volunteering for my church, my children’s preschool, elementary, middle and high schools, I have designed more logos using kids’ icons that you can shake a stick

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NYC in 20 little pieces

You see, I have this crazy plan to walk every square mile in Manhattan. I just googled NYC and learned that there are 23 square miles in Manhattan. It’s 13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles at its widest point. I’ll be there for 28 days, so I’m setting my goal

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