I’m a Blogger….and I love it!!!

So I’ve never been one who works for free. In fact, I’ve avoided it with all my might. But I love running and I love this web site. Brandon is a great friend and as I continue to search for another journalism, I want to keep writing and now I can write about something I love. Here is my first post. To see all subsequent posts, you can click here.

I’m super excited to join this group of bloggers. I found Claim Your Journey only about six months ago. In early 2011, while in a state of flux unemployment, I moved back home to Baton Rouge for financial reasons. Things have gone much better than I expected. Not perfect, but being the realist (grumpy journalist) about everything, I expected it to be quite horrible.
I am in my second semester as a coach for Girls on the Run of Greater Baton Rouge, a program and group of girls I absolutely adore, met many more runners through CYJ and Black Girls Run! Baton Rouge and New Orleans chapters and have realized how truly blessed I am. Everything about my situation could have been way worse. It is for millions of others right now. Since I started to run in late 2010, it’s become a way of keeping sane and just keeping things in perspective. I’m thinking about the day or about my life or talking to God about one or both of those things.

To read the rest, click here.