Have you ever whacked your elbow so hard that you almost cried?  I did exactly that recently. For two weeks, the pain persisted, but I sucke...

I have enough. I am enough. Not so long ago, this wasn't true.  When I first returned home from living an adventurous life in eastern Or...

The Mighty Women paddle a dragon boat! This week, I had to hang up my paddle.  Have you ever had a week that knocks the wind out of you?...

The Mighty Women on the Willamette River. I'm in the back of the boat, port (left) side  and waving my paddle with my bench partn...

Once my arms heal, I'll be back on the trail! I love early January when we start a new year  brimming with possibilities. I'm s...

It's been three months since I crushed both wrists in an ATV accident. After two surgeries, multiple casts, dozens of x-rays and hours o...

Eight weeks ago, I somersaulted over the handlebars of an all-terrain vehicle and broke both my wrists. For the past two months, I've ...

My two broken wrists have slowed me down temporarily, but I have so many reasons to be grateful. Over Labor Day weekend, I was having ...

This ski season, I conquered my fear of the chair lift, made my first solo ski runs and started parallel skiing. My heart beating wildly...

   The lights went out. Complete darkness engulfed me. I was straddling stacks of plastic bins while looking for my camping gear in...

My first car: a 1961 American Rambler, which I drove when it was 16 years old. It was the antithesis of the muscle cars--Mustangs, Charge...

"Babushka" by Irina Gaiduk Recently while climbing into our dragon boat one warm, summer night, I noticed a teeny-tiny, very o...

In three years of paddling a dragon boat with the Mighty Women, I've reinvented myself--and earned all this bling!   Our blades in...

Last night, I missed the boat. Has that ever happened to you? After working late, I drove to downtown Portland to paddle a dragon boat wit...

Oh no! Something's blocking your way! What do you do? When we walked into Mississippi Pizza ready to dance to Kory Quinn's music...

With the season's first dragon boat races in the Pacific Northwest coming up in April, dragon boat teams are recruiting new paddlers now...