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Race4Chase – Turning Tragedy Into Triumph

August 8, 2022 by not your average mom 2 Comments

It’s hard to imagine the unimaginable. It’s pretty much impossible to imagine something amazing being born from an unimaginable tragedy. Chase Kowalski was one of the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy. And from that unimaginable tragedy, the Race4Chase Tri Program was created. Chase Kowalski loved the sport of triathlon. After his death, his parents […]

Filed Under: Self Care Tagged With: kids triathlons, Race4Chase, Sandy Hook, triathlon camps in CT, triathlons

The Sandy Hook Family

December 14, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

My Facebook feed is flooded with tributes, memories, and reminders of the 26 people who were killed in the Sandy Hook shootings today, largely because I live just a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary school. And today is the fifth anniversary of the most unimaginable tragedy I’ve known in my lifetime. Is it the […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Sandy Hook, sandy hook family, the sandy hook promise

Rise Above. Go Beyond. (And win some awesome free tickets).

August 3, 2016 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

I live just ten minutes or so from Sandy Hook, CT and the elementary school where the Sandy Hook shootings took place. It was a tragedy that affected everyone across the country. It devastated the town of Newtown. But it also did something else. It brought the community closer. And a couple of pretty amazing things […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: n ewtown, new arts, Sandy Hook, school of rock, wizard of oz

Thank you.

December 14, 2013 by not your average mom 7 Comments

There is a bridge here in town. The Graffiti Bridge. There is always some sort of message spray painted on the bridge, hence its nickname. Congratulations Seniors. Go Bobcats. Every couple of months the message changes. Except for the current one. The current message has been there for a year. Because this bridge is approximately 10 […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: december 14, Newtown CT, Sandy Hook, teachers

Hold On To What Is Good

December 15, 2012 by not your average mom 13 Comments

I live in Brookfield, CT,  less than one mile from Newtown, Connecticut’s town line. Sandy Hook Elementary School is 6.74 miles from my house. Yesterday morning I was at the Y in Brookfield.  One of the staff members there came up to me in the middle of my workout and asked me if I had […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: CT, newtown, Sandy Hook, Sandy Hook Elementary School, sandy hook family, Sandy Hook shootings

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