Wintertime fitness

Now, for the second consecutive year, I am prevented from running for exercise ... last winter, it was due to a stress fracture, and this year because of my hamstring problems. I certainly am going to hope for better things in the winter of 2009 (and do everything in my power to help bring that about)! Meantime, I am still planning to resume running, slowly and easily, on my birthday (March 17), figuring that will be a great way to celebrate turning 51! And meantime, in order to stay in shape, I have returned to what I was doing a lot of in the first half of this decade ... walking. Most days now I am doing 6-10 miles, at a clip of about 15 minutes/mile.

Christy's man

Here is a picture of my daughter Christy with her fiance Reggie and their dog Wolfgang, taken at Reggie's parents' house in Kansas at Christmastime, 2007. We feel very blessed that Christy and this wonderful man have found one another, and are planning to marry this summer.