by Jackie Wilson | Apr 11, 2018 | Uncategorised
My little Ben turns 5 today. I wrote a post when he turned 3. I just re-read it. The post included lists of 3 things that he’s no longer doing now he’s 3, things I wish would stop soon and 3 brilliant things that are emerging. I thought on his 5th birthday, for no...
by Jackie Wilson | Mar 7, 2018 | On Running, Uncategorised
When you do a lot of running you tend to find company – good company and you can cover a whole lot of subject matter over the miles. The other day, one of my very best running buddies posed the question, what makes a really good run? She posed it rhetorically...
by Jackie Wilson | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorised
When you do the expat moving around thing friends become a matter of heightened significance. You have to leave them, make them, leave them and make them on a rinse and repeat basis. When you arrive in a new country – or continent, you have to make them or basically...
by Jackie Wilson | Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorised
A lot of running eventually started to feel like not enough I think I looked at my training plan about 5 times before I let my brain process how much running I had to do. I’m not going to lie; I fully intended NOT to do it all even if it involved fibs and deception....
by Jackie Wilson | Oct 6, 2017 | Uncategorised
In the past few months several things have happened in my remit of mothering that have caused me to once again tip the hat to the old cliché of this too shall pass. Here are a few examples of those things: My daughter came home from a party with an “inspiring’ mani...
by Jackie Wilson | Jul 10, 2017 | On Running, Uncategorised
At any given time I could write a blog post about running. There’s so much I could say about it I can’t choose – so I don’t. This one though feels ripe, as on the surface it’s about running, but a little bit under that it’s about finding friends around...
