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Race Plan for The 2025 TCM Loony Weekend

I am running the Twin Cities Marathon Weekend Loony, which means on Saturday, October 4th I am running a 10K race at 7:15am and a 5K race at 8:45am. Then on Sunday, October 5th I am running the Twin Cities 10-mile race which goes from downtown Minneapolis to the State Capitol in Saint Paul.  On

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Does turning 60 mean I’m old

I wasn’t sure I’d live this long. Maybe, if like me you have a difficult chronic illness such as diabetes or cancer, it’s easy to imagine an early end-of-life. But here I am, essentially quite healthy, living with both type 1 diabetes AND my third round of breast cancer. Go figure!  In a few weeks,

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Dancing with life & death

Do you know someone, maybe you yourself, who has a difficult chronic illness? Like cancer. Something that’s labeled “incurable”? Something that forces you to consider your mortality. Something that jumps in your face as “death is on its way.” I’ve gotten to dance with death a few times in this lifetime. Nothing like a diagnosis

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Good news comes in threes

Great to be back with you all again. I needed to take a bit of an unplanned break from eNews and blogging. The holiday season was harder on me emotionally than in previous years. I did lots of good therapy and introspection to heal the wounds that made themselves evident this holiday time.  Turns out,

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Healing Retreats for Good

Feeling my emotions deeply is a new behavior for me. I’ve been doing that quite a bit the past few weeks. Turns out, doing this was a good setup for the Breast Cancer Rest & Renew Image Reborn Foundation retreat I attended November 8 – 10, 2024 in Park City, Utah.  With this third breast

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