by Shari Dragovich | Sep 11, 2014 | These Days, Uncategorized
Of course we were going to do a Memorial WOD today. On the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11, what else would a good crossfit box do? I knew the structure of the workout before I walked into class this morning: there was a 2001 meter run (or row) at the beginning of the...
by Shari Dragovich | Aug 4, 2014 | Home Front, Mothering, Superman & me, These Days
This morning my oldest son began two-a-day practices for the 2014 football season. I dropped him off at school—around back on the lower level closest to the locker rooms—at 7:20 a.m. The sun had barely climbed over the mountains, long shadows covered the freshly...
by Shari Dragovich | Jun 6, 2014 | Faith, These Days, Travel
This is a re-post from last year on D-Day. It is a reflection of my time with Superman two springs ago in France, when we visited the Beaches of Normandy. It was written as a letter to my grandfathers–both WWII vets–one serving on the Pacific front and the...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 28, 2014 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, Superman & me, These Days, Uncategorized
Since moving to Roanoke, Superman and I have taken up a new weekend morning habit, that of reading the paper. Every new place our family has moved, I’ve tried making newspaper reading part of my morning ritual. But until this move, I could never make it stick. Maybe...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 12, 2014 | Faith, Nature, Ribbon Box, These Days
Those of you who visit here regularly know I am a wannabe poetry maven, however can never seem to pass “Poetry 101”. But Wendell Berry, I understand him. He is my favorite (which, my faithful tens of readers also know, I don’t use the word “favorite” lightly). This...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 9, 2014 | Faith, Nature, On Writing, These Days
“So you see, we are a dot, living on a dot, spinning around a dot, positioned within a dot that is one of hundreds of billions of dots within the universe…” This was the how the Sunday morning message began. I sat listening to Dr. James Peterson, Schumann Professor of...
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