Esther Erb Blogs
In the past month, I've had two very exciting races at the BAA 5k and the Broad Street Run. Things are going well, but I wrote this piece at the end of April, before my bigger break-through of the two. It was inspired by being a member of the bridal party for one of my best friends on April 21 and by a fun conversation with the rector at my church. Today is my 4-month anniversary. The honeymoon is over and we're still here, together. We met in Germany on Ash Wednesday in 2003, over nine years ago now. Not quite seventeen years old, I had just e...
Here I am, sitting on a hard double bed in a Days Inn in Tallahassee, Florida. I’m in place where my daily routine involves waking up around 7, eating from a limited yet exciting continental breakfast. Which flavors of oatmeal packets will they have today? At some point after 8, I gather my things and head out to pile into a car with a couple other Zapsters and head to one of the many awesome running venues that are the reason why we come here to Tallahassee. We run for a while, and then drive back to the hotel. After we change into dry c...
Here I am, sitting on a hard double bed in a Days Inn in Tallahassee, Florida. I’m in place where my daily routine involves waking up around 7, eating from a limited yet exciting continental breakfast. Which flavors of oatmeal packets will they have today? At some point after 8, I gather my things and head out to pile into a car with a couple other Zapsters and head to one of the many awesome running venues that are the reason why we come here to Tallahassee. We run for a while, and then drive back to the hotel. After we change into dry c...
Here I am, sitting on a hard double bed in a Days Inn in Tallahassee, Florida. I’m in place where my daily routine involves waking up around 7, eating from a limited yet exciting continental breakfast. Which flavors of oatmeal packets will they have today? At some point after 8, I gather my things and head out to pile into a car with a couple other Zapsters and head to one of the many awesome running venues that are the reason why we come here to Tallahassee. We run for a while, and then drive back to the hotel. After we change into dry c...
It’s been 10 weeks since I moved down to ZAP with my mom and the family van in tow. Within the first week of being here, I knew that I had come to the right place. Change can be frightening, but I immediately felt like I was an integral part of the ZAP family, complete with incessant banter and teasing. Every time I have moved somewhere new, the fact that I’ve moved doesn’t fully hit me until the seasons change. This was the first time in two years that I had watched summer turn into fall on U.S...