“We are all exactly the same, and yet totally different!! I am from an ultra-conservative family of nine children where I grew up lost in the shuffle and was thankful for the free lunch program at school as a child. I learned at an early age that I’d have to…
“Experiencing the freedom of my own expanded realizations that my previous runs were not only attainable, but easily accomplished with every new mile reached another one appeared ready to be conquered. I quickly became engaged in seeing how far I could go, how far I could push myself. The more…
I observed two younger girls discussing their ambitions; I was saddened to hear them not expect greatness from themselves, focusing only on the bare necessities to raise their children. This is when I decided to write my book, How Far Will I Run. I felt the need share my story…
A few years ago, I went back to college to learn Spanish. One of my assignments was to write about my childhood in Spanish. This translation was not the easiest, so I asked my Senora for help after class one day. As I shared my childhood memories with her, she just kept…
