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The purpose of this trip was to visit the city that our great grandmother was from. My sister arranged a "heritage" tour and we sent our family background information ahead of our visit. Our driver/heritage tour director Domenico had done a lot of research on our behalf. He showed up at our hotel at 9:00… Continue reading The Tale of Two Sisters in Italy – Our Family Heritage

_🏊‍♀️I have officially started training for the National meet in June. Starting with swimming 3 times a week and moving up to 4 times a week in 6 weeks. _🏊‍♀️Swimming is hard. You swim sets at 80% heart rate or the “yellow” zone for you My Zone fans or “peak” for you treadmill users. All… Continue reading Reclaiming My Life — Choose Your Hard

_🦋At 7 years old and in 1st grade at Catholic school, my class had a raffle. By far the greatest gift on the table was a beautiful Rosary. All my friends were oohing and awing. My number was picked first. Not wanting to upset the apple cart, I chose a (in my mind) beautiful pin… Continue reading Reclaiming My Life — Self Control Is Strength

GOALS: My goals used to be all about a number on the scale. 👎 Seriously! I was obsessed. I weighed myself three times a day. When my trainer told my husband to get rid of the scale, I thought about it at least 50 times a day. That was 2 years ago. _I am still… Continue reading Goal Setting

Just three years ago my weekends were spent sitting on the couch too physically exhausted to get up and explore my surroundings. Not anymore. I began by making small changes to my diet and by getting off that couch and moving (even a walk to the mailbox and back). I walked my neighborhood a lot… Continue reading Remember the Reason…