View From the Hiking Trail:
Mood Reading: ZZZ’s (I know it’s just a piddly hour difference – but this daylight savings thing is kicking my butt. (I hate waking up when it’s dark – and often just don’t!)
There are two kinds of people in this world: dog-lovers and everyone else.
It’s not that I don’t like those in the latter category, on the contrary. I Read the rest of this entry »
View From the Bleachers:
Mood Reading: zzz’s (catching up on the ones I lost during the holidays)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The interview contained herein was posted last night – and appeared as it does in Vaulter magazine. Due to space and length constraints of the magazine, some of the more anecdotal portions understandably were edited out. This morning however, after a few cups of coffee I realized the only constraints of my blog are my readers attention spans and refills of the respective beverages they may be consuming while reading it. So grab yourself a refill and get comfy — I have included those portions back in. (and thank Vaulter Magazine for posting a link to the unedited version as well)
It’s that time of year. With the National Pole Vault Summit quickly
approaching on Jan. 17th, (that 3-day epic sporting event celebrating the lifeblood of my immediate family) this space will once again be temporarily diverted from the intermittent ramblings of a rural blonde writer to the musings of a well-seasoned (read that: aging) pit-lizard.
As such, I was recently asked by Vaulter Magazine and friend Bubba Sparks for an interview about my father, his life, and personal observations around the pole vault pit for this month’s issue. (There is an upside to sheer longevity after all.) I was not only touched to be asked but enjoyed revisiting happy memories of my father, family, Read the rest of this entry »
Note to my faithful readers: This space, From the Kitchen Counter, has been hijacked for the coming week and will be coming to you live as: “From the National Pole Vault Summit”.
This is the time of year my two worlds collide. My writer, gad-about, civilian, “normal” life (using that term loosely) meets my parallel universe – the whacky, intense, sometimes irrational, mostly obsessive/compulsive world and business which dominates the rest of my family (and their blackberries and iphones) otherwise known as The Pole Vault.
I will be posting live on the run-up to and during the entire Pole Vault Summit, depending of course on a variety of factors…namely how crazy things get, how much time I have, my mood and how much Chardonnay I’ve had the night before. Read the rest of this entry »
View From the Front Porch:
Mood Reading: ZZZ’s (slept okay considering temps that have dipped into the low teens!)
This has been one of the more difficult blog posts for me to write. It shouldn’t be… it’s that time of year where everywhere you go people are cheery, carols are playing, there’s usually some chocolate to be had and the air is filled with good will and happy tidings.
But everything changed last Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
View From the Deck : (of the cabin – in the non-stop rain)
Mood Reading: ZZZ’s (would have been more Z’s but kept waking up to see if power came back on.)
So, after a wonderful week in Charlotte N.C. visiting the offspring (who opened their home and hearts to us for a fabulous Thanksgiving holiday) I am trying to recover from the week of over-indulgence by a trip to the cabin and some (ahem) healthy eating and exercise. I drove the 2 hours it takes yesterday and made it as far as the little country store in town before Read the rest of this entry »
Weather today: Sunny, warm, (spring has arrived, for a day anyway!)
View from the Stanford Shopping Center (Palo Alto, CA):
Mood Reading: ZZZZZ’s!!! (It’s a fiver – slept like a rock!)
The hubby and I took a little road trip this weekend over the Sierras to Palo Alto (a 4 hour drive — tops) and Stanford University for a track meet. I always love these little get-aways — you don’t need an airline ticket or travel insurance and no one has to come water the houseplants or pick up the mail — but if you live in Nevada this time of year, it feels like a journey to a foreign country! Read the rest of this entry »
Weather Today: Sunny, warming, slightly breezy (good day to get outside and dig in the dirt!)
View ‘from the front porch’:
Mood Reading: ZZZZ’s (slept in this morning – yum – but after a little caffeine and view of the sunshine, have an inexplicable urge to clean out the linen closet – perhaps spring has sprung after all!)
It was all over the morning shows this morning. Not that I regularly watch them mind you, just this morning, ahem… to catch up on the news, and world events, and uh… stock market stats etc. Anyway, I just happened to catch this story that apparently ran in the New York Times about celebrity chefs NOT writing their own cookbooks – using ghostwriters instead. It was all over GMA and The Today show anyway. (Alright, so C-span isn’t part of my morning repertoire.) Read the rest of this entry »
From the Kitchen Counter... 