Life is Dangerous…Live Anyway!

Posted on May 4, 2012 by rkpaulus

Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose, tears his ACL during playoff game #1 against the Sixers and is done for 2012 NBA season.

New York Yankees’ Joba Chamberlein hurts ankle while playing on trampoline with five year old son and is out for 2012 season.

New York Knicks Jeremy Lin recovering from knee surgery and now rookie Iman Shumpert is out for eight months after tears to his ACL as well as a lateral meniscus.

Life is dangerous. Each of these players knows. They’re hurting now. But, the truth is, they probably have the option to come back. Hopefully make their game stronger. And play some more.

When hubby and one of his best friends trotted off to catch the shuttle bus over the the Pocono Raceway for their first Tough Mudder competition, I can’t lie. I was a little nervous. The description and videos of the event included obstacles involving fire, electrical shocks, ice water, climbing walls, and dark tunnels. The twelve to thirteen mile course is broken up with these army-simulated challenges that you cannot complete apart from your team. Continue reading →

Enveloped With Love…

Posted on April 24, 2012 by rkpaulus

Back in the Day…1995

Not even hours after we “defined the relationship” with a very deep and profound sentence of:

Sun: “It seems kind of obvious that I like you…”

Me: “And I like you.”

We left each other. He dropped me off at a bus depot around midnight for an overnight ride from Chicago to somewhere in South Dakota where I had volunteered to be a week long camp counselor. This was our first taste of long distance. The week was very very very long.
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My Valentine’s Playlist

Posted on February 9, 2012 by rkpaulus

I love music.

So I married a deejay. Most people know hubby as a DR. but, I assure you, he was D.J. long before the R showed up. Hey, my name starts with R. But it’s not all about me.

So, as I was saying… Continue reading →

Roses are D-RED!

Posted on February 2, 2012 by rkpaulus

I didn’t know I loved basketball. Until one day in fifth grade, two semi-coordinated students were chosen to train with the middle school team in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario. My best friend J. and I were those two students. Neither of us knew how to dribble or shoot, but we were fairly tall for our age, and the coach saw potential and gave us a chance. I’m not sure how far J. took her balling career, because she moved away before we started high school.

The peak of my career occurred in eighth grade when my team unanimously chose me for captain that year. I anticipated a few passes, cut the lanes, and hit my lay-ups. Pretty consistently. Plus I got along with everyone on the team. I never did the click thing, until I was forced into a click of non-clickers by the clickees who excluded me. Continue reading →

In Search of Waterfalls

Posted on July 14, 2006 by rkpaulus

The first time we shared a waterfall was on a trip with the Young Adult Group from our church. Niagara Falls. How’s that for the start of a theme for your love-life?!! We were clearly “falling” for each other in the most magnificent way! I seemed to catch him gazing at me all the time, and maybe that was because… I tried to steal a glimpse of him in the group without making it so obvious that I was hopefully and deliriously into this young man that God had so strategically put into my life. Two days later, we “defined the relationship” with a very deep and profound conversation that went something like this:

Him: “Isn’t it kind of obvious that I like you…”
and I finished, “… and you like me!”

Ten years later… Continue reading →