Little Red Running Hood

Life is kind of like " the train that crashed my heart... the glitter in the dark..." This blog started as my single Mom running diary.  It has served me as an outlet through some of the hardest times in my life...Times I felt completely alone. This blog has helped me process, appreciate myself, it has documented my incredible personal victories, it has recorded monumental heartbreaks.  Most importantly, it has let me be me. Pouring my head and heart out in cyber space.  It is time to begin where I left off..... or perhaps even,..... before I started....  Circa 2015........ 2014 - Mid summer. It was unseasonably hot. I drove 9 hours to drop my youngest off at a camp, and 7 more hours to meet my dad at his cabin in the mountains.  I did not have AC, but, being no stranger to 4/65 AC and lots of water.... it didn't feel like a big deal to be driving with no AC.  In summer, with my children... we would make it.  We had made it this far.   My Dad met ...

When I was 12, my Dad began his great quest of introducing me to literature. I remember being so excited about summer break... having just bought several Sweet Valley High books - I could not wait to spend my days doing nothing and reading about high school drama in the 80s..... and then- The first book was "The Old Man and the Sea". My Dad said - read it, then let me know you have finished, we will discuss, and I will give you a new book. Yeah... it was a dream summer - let me tell you....The Pearl, Lord of the Flies, Grapes of Wrath, War and Peace, my Dad's ever favorite... The History of Mankind... by the time I arrived at college, I had read so many books - I was so fast and efficient at consuming literature - I read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in a weekend. My Dad had not only educated me in litearature, he taught me how to comprehend and discuss - and COMPARE. There was almost nothing I could not draw from - nothing I could not understand in the wr...