I met Maria at the first Go Red for Women event that I spoke at, last November. She came right up to me and said she’d been reading my blog and wanted to meet me. (Fellow bloggers know how thrilling that is!) We talked for a while and she asked about my kids and how […]
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Jul 2013
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Jul 2013
It’s summer, it’s running season, and I’m really happy to be working with the American Heart Association’s Minnesota Run with Heart team this year. It’s the first time the AHA has fielded a charity team for the Twin Cities Marathon and it is, ahem, a cause after my own heart. Over the next 10 training […]
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Jul 2013
Dear friends, family & readers, This is pretty cool: The American Heart Association-Minnesota has, for the first time, teamed up with the Twin Cities Marathon to field a charity team! Running for heart disease. Not sure it could get more perfect for me than that. I signed on right away, and then the AHA asked […]
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Jun 2013
Last week the American Heart Association-Minnesota held a volunteer appreciation event — an after-work happy hour in a pretty hotel lobby bar. I went because I’m a volunteer and because they gave me a Volunteer Impact Award for my work this year as Go Red spokesperson, ambassador, speaker, and even for this blog. It was […]
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May 2013
Now this is exciting. Running friends, get your GU and Body Glide ready, because it’s time to train for a marathon! This year, for the first time, the American Heart Association of Minnesota will field a charity team for the Twin Cities Marathon. Yours truly is serving as the honorary chair. (Honorary for a lot […]
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Apr 2013
I follow a lot of heart news, blogs, doctors, medical journals, and conferences. I read the headlines, and usually, the articles. I follow the footnotes to the original study. I have learned a ton about my disease, and I have learned how to read between the lines. There are some factoids that are very odd, […]
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Feb 2013
Jodi and I started along this heart attack journey at about the same time, a few states and many miles apart, finding each other months later through the sisterhood of heart blogging and reading the web at midnight. Jodi survived a massive “widow-maker” heart attack at age 42, and after recovering from the stun she […]
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Feb 2013
Today’s author, Andy Steiner, was my first professional boss. She was editor of the Minnesota Women’s Press when I started there as an intern right out of college. We only worked together a few months, but it was long enough to make an impression — I was then and I am now impressed and inspired […]
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Feb 2013
Today’s author is a long-time colleague, friend, and neighbor. Rand and I worked together for years, we live within blocks, and we’ve kept in touch, professionally and personally, as the jobs change and the kids grow. When I started shouting about heart disease from the rooftops, Rand asked to meet for lunch or coffee. He, […]
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Feb 2013
I’m so excited to share several guest posts from friends, family, colleagues, and fellow heart sisters over the next few days. And even more excited that the first one is from my sister, Anna. Although my brother, sister, and I share the same family history and distressingly high lipid profiles, Anna has not had a […]
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