Writings, Wanderings

 2020 has been a year. My creativity took a major hit, but I do have one writing accomplishment that I am very excited about from this year. I wrote a short story titled Second Chance Run and it was accepted into an anthology with twenty-five other authors! It has been an amazing experience, and I have loved getting to know the other authors a little bit. I am also loving reading the stories in the anthology :) I want to get back into blogging in the new year, so I've decided to introduce each of the stories but not in a traditional "this is the synopsis" book review. More of me just pointing out a few pieces that stuck with me. So get ready to see some quick reviews from the love stories in Sweet Romance: An Anthology over the next few weeks!

December 2017. I sat at a booth in an Eat 'n' Park and caught up with a friend on our life over the last year. At the time I was still smarting from my two failed attempts to break the four-hour mark in a marathon. Although my friend encouraged me to look at the positive--I did run TWO marathons within five weeks after all--I couldn't shake the funk of having put in months of training and not being successful in my goal. February 2018. My sister informs me that the Marine Corps Marathon--one of the few races at that distance on my wish-list--is changing their registration. Every other year it had been lottery-style, but this year there would be a fifteen-minute window when anyone who registered (and paid the fee) would be an automatic entry. The only catch? That window was in the morning when I was supposed to be interacting with a classroom of Spanish students. Registration day arrived--and with it a school cancellation. I was amazed at this moment working out, but this wa...