New to this series? Read Part I and Part II of Elise’s jogging journey first! Two Words: I Can’t I’ve spent years telling myself and others that I can’t do things: I can’t run. I can’t ski. No, I can’t actually lift my leg that […]

Missed the first part of Elise’s jogging journey? Catch up here. Whenever I begin a new endeavor, I always start with the gear. Planning to get serious about writing my novel? That calls for new notebooks and pens, whatever writing software or app I’ve decided […]

I think the first time I ever considered running as something other than a gym activity designed by Satan himself to torture me was in 2005 when I was watching a teenaged Blake Lively joyously sprint down a beach in Baja in Sisterhood of the […]

Four months ago, what started off as a minor tropical storm dropped three feet of water on my city and decimated my plans. Some were, in the grand scheme of things, inconsequential. I was going to throw myself a belated 30th birthday party on Halloween, […]

For three months, it seemed like I could never scroll through my Instagram feed without seeing the same video of a fresh-faced twenty-something swatching a lipstick on the back of her hand, artlessly swiping it across her lips, and then grinning at the camera. Sidebar: […]