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Lose to Win

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller

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My husband says I’m kind of a contradiction. Because in some areas of my life, I’m an it’s-better-to-ask-for-forgiveness-than-permission kind of a girl. My last year of teaching, I had a Bring Your Pet to School Day. I arranged for it to be outside in the upper parking lot behind the school. I didn’t mention it […]

Go hard or go home. And if you have to stay home, well go hard there instead.

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We just finished week 4 of Lose to Win. And in that week we had a snow day, a blizzard, and the Y was closed for 48 hours. So I had to resort to drastic measures. Some of you thought I was crazy for pulling a Rocky IV and running laps around my yard in a […]