November 06 2011
The Rochester Children’s Book Festival is the biggest book event for Rochester kids all year. Thousands of kids and parents come to MCC to take advantage of the free storytelling, author presentations and crafts. Festival co-ordinators, Sibby Falk and Kathy Blasi won The Big Pencil award this year from Writers and Books for providing this great contribution to […]
November 06 2011
Evan David Germick November 4, 2011 8 pounds, 22 inches long Life is good! Day 308: 14,206 Steps YTD: 2,832,672 Steps Goal: 2,904,000 Steps
November 06 2011
Do you remember those black and white movies from the 1940’s where the expectant father is pacing back and forth in the waiting room while his wife is in another room giving birth? Except for the part where the father passes out cigars at the end, that was me today. While Kris and Dave were in the […]
November 02 2011
Last week I wrote about how I consider WAIT an acronym for While Anxious I Trust.” But while I’m waiting and trusting, it helps to have something constructive to do with my hands. This week I started making a baby quilt. You might wonder why I’ve waited this long, but I was waiting to find […]
November 01 2011
October turned out to be a good walking month even though I was forced to go back to the treadmill on some of those rainy days. But I met my goal, 21 out of 26 days or 81% of the time, and my daily average was 11,025 steps. Wahoo! Bring on November. Day 305: 11,010 Steps […]
November 01 2011
Blister on my bunion – ouch! I had to struggle to get my steps in today. Day 304: 11,004 Steps YTD: 2,781,137 Steps Goal: 2,860,00 Steps
November 01 2011
Visiting the “Extreme Materials 2” exhibit at the Memorial Art Gallery is like stepping into the old Goofy House at Sea Breeze. Nothing is exactly what it seems. For example, there’s a piece of artwork that looks like a cactus from far away, but as you draw closer, you see that it’s made up of […]
October 31 2011
October 28 2011
I’m stepping in place today – waiting – waiting for baby, but also waiting for my brother’s operation to be rescheduled, waiting for news of my aunt in hospice. It seems like I’ve spent a lot of my life waiting for one thing or another. How about you? In fact, I’ve spent so much time […]
October 28 2011
Day 300: 11,694 Steps YTD: 2,746,834 Steps Goal: 2,827,000 Steps So, day 300. I can see the finish line, but I just figured out that I’m 80,166 steps behind my total goal. That means that for each of the next 65 days I have to make an additional 1233 steps or 12,233 steps per day. […]