April was a big month for The List! 20. Take a Spanish refresher course 4/6/11 I had taken several years of Spanish, both in junior high and high school - but then I screwed it all up by studying Italian in college. I even took it a step further by spending a semester in Rome my [...]
Category: mini-accomplishments
Realizing my Potential
For the past six weeks, I have been reflecting a great deal on the remarkable life of Sylvia "Sunny" Moore and the impact that she had on my own. I learned of Sunny's death as I was busy preparing for a 3 week trek in South America. As I was folding trip scarves and placing [...]
Gravity Federation Repost
Marketer extraordinaire and good friend, Chad Ciesil, has been really busy. First, he and his awesome wife, Blair, added Henry to the Ciesil clan. Then he moved his growing family, inclusive of two large canines, from Chicago to Charlottesville, VA in the pre-Christmas snow. And, most recently, he launched Gravity Federation, a unique marketing agency [...]
Quintessential New Trier Article
I'm extremely excited and humbled by the beautiful article in the current issue of Quintessential New Trier magazine. Please visit the Kenya 2011 page to join the January 2011 trip to Kenya or to contribute to the cause and feel free to send any questions about the trip my way. To see more photographs of [...]
Happy (belated) Summitversary!
Sunday, October 24th was our Kilimanjaro Summitversary! Aren't travel friends the best? In celebration, I'm posting two never before seen Kilimanjaro summit photos. Little gems I came across while updating my portfolio - enjoy!
#29 – Gave a presentation on my experience in Kenya
Last night I was able to cross my first item off of my 30 before 30 list! Since returning from my first trip to Kenya in 2007 (and then again in 2009), I've wanted to put together some sort of presentation about my experience, but the task always seemed daunting. So many stories, so many [...]
Run Charlevoix —> RAN Charlevoix!
This post is a couple of weeks overdue but I wanted to announce that my sister, Lizzy, my mom and I all successfully completed our Run Charlevoix events! Three Winter girls in three different events - I'm not sure if the small town race was ready for us! Lizzy finished second overall in the half [...]
Run Charlevoix!
Yep, I'm a runner now. Last month I ran the Race to Wrigley, my first 5k since college, and next month I'm doubling the distance with Run Charlevoix! My friend, Kelli, has encouraged me to to join the Daily Mile website to log my runs and try to connect with other runners. I'm not going [...]
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