It’s Triathlon Season!! Get going, go strong , go far !! As many of you know, my commitment to the sport of triathlon is nothing new . I choose carefully the events I do. They should be USAT Sanctioned events. That way I know all safety measures have been taken to assure athletes are looked out for. No athlete is ever 100% risk free going into these competitions. …ok I digress a bit – by the same token, I choose carefully how …

Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau

Culpeper Literacy Council (CLC) is a non profit organization, funded by grants, donations, and fund raising events.
CLC serves to “promote, coordinate and facilitate planning and development of literacy services for adults 18 years of age or older in Culpeper County, Virginia”
They offer FREE group classes and individual …

I tried an East Timor roast last summer and really enjoyed this coffee. Honestly, as a roaster  it is hard for me to prioritize my dozen – some origins – This one is an organic and Fair Trade coffee from Ermera , a district in East Timor, half of one of the easternmost coffee growing islands in Indonesia.
Ermera is an area of Timor-Leste (formerly called East Timor) with a long tradition of coffee growing and was the location of the main coffee plantation when Timor was occupied …

On Thursday April 29, 2010, 7:00 pm – Author of acclaimed best sellers, The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses,  Jeanette Walls will be signing and discussing her books at a special event sponsored by Germanna Community College,  benefiting The Culpeper Literacy Council.
Walls, is a local writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com. Her book,  The Glass Castle,  a memoir of her family’s repeated relocations during her childhood, published in 2005 sold over 1.5 million copies by the end of 2007.  It had been translated into …

It’s here…maybe this storm will crack the top ten worst storms to hit the area!!  Preparing for the storm…well…some of these you can still do..some you may already have done.. I have not done half of these….. but I’m up late and read up on some of this and thought I’d share.
So……I started today with filling my tank since I was heading to Warrenton to swim ,  anticipating 3 days off from swimming :(…and probably running…and biking…..some of these are common sense , really.
1. Hope you filled your cars with …