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Doreen Lwanga
Apr 3, 20153 min read
Ignorance is Bliss, Sometimes….
In academia, we know the common saying, ˆPublish or Perish”. So real that tenure-track aspirants spend their maiden post-PhD years...
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Doreen Lwanga
Apr 1, 20153 min read
April is All the Kool Kids Month! Let’s….!
It is here….and….It is Official! April is All the Kool Kids Month! Go Figure! Sorry y’all who don’t fit the profile! I know the, “Damn!...
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 30, 20154 min read
Tapering For Real! Road to Boston Marathon 2015
Telling a runner that you cannot run after 21K, is like saying you cannot walk after a full marathon. Who does that? Who listens to that?...
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 21, 20154 min read
It is March 20th! 31 Days to April 20th
Yesterday, Friday, March 20 marked exactly thirty-one days to April 20th, which will be a Monday! You may be wondering, why the fuss...
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 19, 20153 min read
Meeting the “Gifted and Talented”: No Nigerians Here!
Finally, I met the “Gifted and Talented” aka G&T. I am still questioning what that means. When my son was in Kindergarten, he got tested...
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 16, 20153 min read
Parenting: Another Chance at Living Selflessly
My Little Ninja Perhaps no other life experience has given me the opportunity to learn to live selflessly like Parenting. And I do not...
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 13, 20151 min read
Anxieties in “Taper Period”, six weeks to Marathon!
Anxieties in “Taper Period”, six weeks to Marathon!.
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 13, 20153 min read
Anxieties in “Taper Period”, six weeks to Marathon!
Here we go running I am feeling rather anxious, as I get into the “Taper Period” before D-Day, Monday, April 20. I am talking about...
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 7, 20154 min read
Surviving a 4th Grade Class!
Whoever coined the phrase, “Never say Never”? Google tells me this phrase was first recorded in Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, 1837....
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 5, 20153 min read
In the Middle of Everywhere!
Have you ever felt stuck in the Middle of Everywhere? In the Middle of Everywhere Imagine for a minute that you are stuck in “space”....
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Doreen Lwanga
Mar 4, 20153 min read
Good Luck Charms for Runners
To quote Ulysses S. Grant, “Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything,...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 27, 20153 min read
56.7 miles in a Week averaging – F Weather!
Last week, I run a total of 56.7 miles, over six days, in an average of single digit weather. The weather last week was terrible with...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 23, 20151 min read
ignorance is NOT bliss, get out there and play YOUR part in wiping it out
For anyone so blissful enjoying their distortion of “The Other”, in this case “Africa” scare-a-hero For the record, that phrase...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 19, 20154 min read
Fundraising takes the same zeal as training to run a marathon
As someone who has tried my hands at both, I must admit that fundraising takes the same zeal as training to run a marathon. When you are...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 17, 20153 min read
Perhaps there is Freedom in Suffering?
It is a given that all humans live in pursuit of happiness! We all want to be happy, with ourselves, our loved ones and our families. We...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 17, 20152 min read
Internationalizing Black History Month
I “We learned about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We will learn about Chinese New Year, the presidents, …” Wait, isn’t February Black...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 13, 20153 min read
Even a Runner needs a Partner, sometimes
Yet, even I do wish for running company sometime. I wish I had a partner to motivate me to run more or faster. Sometime I just need that...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 9, 20154 min read
Nobody is Ever in a Permanent State of Being
We grow, we age We age, we experience We experience, we learn We learn, we rethink We rethink, we enlarge We enlarge, we seek We seek, we...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 9, 20152 min read
Runner’s Guilt
I am a runner, who tends to stick to a schedule, mental or written. Guilt engulfs me each time I do not run as scheduled [again mental or...
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Doreen Lwanga
Jan 30, 20154 min read
Schooling under Wartime, and Explaining that to my American-born child
He asked me, “Did you go to school in war?” “Yes, until when it was no longer a wise decision to go outside the house,” I told him. I...
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