Going to Beijing/N. China? Here’s my Top 5 for packing&prep.

July 17, 2011

I’d started this post a looooong while back in the hopes of giving insight to the one person who stumbled randomly upon my blog and told me she was moving to Beijing in June for school; clearly, I lost steam. But now, a colleague of mine from Projectline will be going there for work (lucky lady!), she asked me for [...]

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Beijing, Jixian Co and the Great Wall Marathon – in under 4 minutes

June 1, 2011

As promised! Here’s the video synopsis of the experience of a lifetime: my trip to China for the 2011 Great Wall Marathon. There was so much more I wanted to put in here – videos of Matt trying to learn unhelpful phrases like “f*ck you”, and slightly more helpful phrases like “no thank you”, videos [...]

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I’m baack! Wait, don’t you wanna hear about it?

May 30, 2011

My trip to China with Matt Kowalczyk for the 2011 Great Wall Marathon was truly the experience of a lifetime. We laughed, -at the engrish translations -with the beautiful Chinese children who cheered and high-fived us as we ran through their village We cried, -from sleepless nights in hard, wiry beds that poked our aching [...]

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Guest blogging – on inspiration, and perspiration

May 8, 2011

I wrote a little handful of stories for the Climb for Kids blog, to help promote our charity run; visit the blog to read about stuff like a favorite old running route revisited, a newfound set of stairs to torture myself with, and a beloved 18 year-old t-shirt. New posts will go up both here [...]

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Why Climb for Kids?

May 8, 2011

You might be wondering why a childless woman with a history of supporting environmental nonprofits and one particularly awesome sustainability think tank would suddenly take interest in a charity focused on fetal syndromes. The answer is simple – this guy sitting next to me here, my boyfriend Matt, is the founder of Climb for Kids. [...]

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May 7, 2011

What must it say about me, that I had to spend 10 min putting together an image that describes how I feel about starting this blog, before I could muster the courage to write?       Yep. I’m a blogophobe. I’m shy! I’m afraid no one will care what I have to say! I [...]

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