I'm excited about my third year. I've gotten a lot of good advice from coaches and they told me it takes 3-5 years to build a program from scratch.

We have to jell those three classes together. That's probably one of the biggest feats this season.

With her, we'll take our time and make sure she's fully healed.

...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word. Then remind yourself of that again. And then write another and hey, look at you! You’re spitting in that deadline’s eye.

Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.

Advice should be viewed from behind