J'Espere

My summer has come to an end, and I don't even believe that July really happened. It seems like I had just finished closing up my office for the summer and now I'm not only reopening it, I'm reassessing where I am as an educator. But enough about that. On to the fun stuff. Training season has begun! I start training for the City of Oaks (Rex Healthcare) Half Marathon on Monday and I'm pumped. Sort of. I always prefer training for races that take place in the late fall/ winter, since that training schedule is significantly less hot. But this fall also promises to be slammed with weekend activities, from weddings (yay for one in NYC!) to Girls on the Run (I'm a coach), to Hopscotch Music Festival in downtown Raleigh (VIP is how I roll) and so much more. Seriously. It's ridiculous. So i'm trying to figure out a strategy that will give me some flexibility in the dreaded long run. Or maybe not so dreaded long run. What I learned over my summer vacati

One of the benefits of summertime is getting to catch up on my TV watching. That's right, people. I'm a librarian who loves television. Since we don't have cable, and we only get two network stations, for me that means a whole lot of Netflixing. Of course, Netfix does a lot to recommend things that they think I would enjoy watching. One of the recommendations I received today was a documentary titled "The Elephant in the Living Room". It's a pretty small documentary about a wildlife officer in Ohio and a man who owns a bunch of lions. The premise of the documentary is to discuss the subject of exotic pets. Should we be allowed to keep wild animals as pets? The story opens with Terry, a man so crippled physically and by depression that he spent almost a year and a half in bed. Finally, a friend gave him a lion cub, and then he received another one later on. Which of course, grew into two large African Lions. The problem with African Lions, is that, of cours