Big things are afoot today!
First of all, this is my 100th post on this blog! Considering that I took a good chunk of time off, hitting my 100th post just 14 months after I started is not too shabby. Thanks to all of you who have read, commented, shared, and encouraged. A blog is nothing without community, and mine is small but wonderful.
Today also marks our first anniversary of living in San Diego! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since we rather unexpectedly packed up our lives and moved to a new city. There were some tough, lonely months in the beginning, but we have gained so much since we arrived in our new city: a wonderful home, great friends, a fantastic church home, a cute puppy, and lots of life experience that we are the better for, both individually and as a couple. San Diego is not home in the way that Ohio is home, but it is the next best thing, and I definitely look forward to what the next year has in store for us here. I feel undeservedly blessed.
Also, I feel like this blog needs some gratuitous animal pictures. Because blogs without pictures are booo-riiiing!
This is what Oscar looks like when someone takes a bath without him. He really likes baths.
And this is what Cambria looks like when she wants more food (because a half-full bowl is not good enough for our little queen), but you ignore her and blog instead.
Now, on with the show.
Today is the 15th day of Poetry Month, so as promised, I will share. Here goes nothing:
When most are just beginning to thing about running, we
are finishing the first major lap. We stop for
a drink, and they ask our advice, but their eyes
are glazed. “Run hard and don’t be selfish.” They smile
and nod, as though what we have will
be so easily attained. As though we did not battle and
bleed, as though a good marriage can be
selected and gift wrapped at any department store of choice.
We continue running, smiling our secret smile because we know that
soon they will begin, and words will be thrown that no one really
meant, and she will cry and he will
feel a little fooled by her rosy lips that tricked him here, and
the real marathon of love will begin.
Lovely Little Things 
Happy 100th!
Well done on your 100th. Lovely poem, again. I can’t wait to see what you’ve been reading. I just finished ‘The Song of Achilles’ – I had no expectations, but it was fantastic. Such a lovely surprise when things turn out better than you expect. I recently visited San Diego and loved it. I live north of San Francisco and love it too.