One very dark, cool Wednesday morning in September, I walked onto the Alexander Graham Middle School track with 30 or so other runners. It was 5:30 in the morning. My mother would say that’s the middle of the night. A former high school cross-country runner and soccer player, I never competed on a track, never trained on a track and until last fall, avoided running on a track at all cost. But …
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Boston Bound – Here to Create
On my whopping 23 mile run this past Saturday, I thought about the goal I set in April of 2016 -- qualify for Boston. That goal had a built in goal behind it -- once you qualify, run Boston. And so, here we are, a month away from the 2018 Boston Marathon. Thousands and thousands of other runners set very similar goals. Some have been chasing down the goal to run Boston for years. On April 16, 2018, …
Are You Embracing the Chase?
Someone recently asked me, “What happens if you catch Helen?” “Haha,” I said. “That will never happen.” Why? Because I will always be chasing Helen and you will always be chasing _____ (insert your name). Matthew McConaughey, in his 2014 Oscar winning speech, said it perfectly. There are three things he needs each day: something to look up to, something to look forward to and someone to …
New Year, Same You
I’ll be honest with you, this whole “New Year, New You,” thing does not make sense to me. I get it -- New Year’s Resolutions and all that jazz -- but that doesn’t mean you have to be a new person! You are you. I am me. There’s nothing magical about January 1 that makes you “new.” On July 1, 2017, I woke up in my childhood bedroom in Goldsboro, NC, looked out the window to the U-Haul sitting in the …
Big Moves, the Chase Continues
Big changes on the horizon: I’m moving to Charlotte to work for a great law firm, in two weeks! Of course, this means I’m leaving a great law firm, working for my dad, in Goldsboro, the town that raised me and to which I returned wholeheartedly. Thomas Wolfe said “You can’t go home again.” Well, I’m here to tell you that you can and I did. What a rewarding adventure to practice law with my father …