If we were having coffee together today (well, tea for me!), I’d tell you that I’m training to run a marathon right now. It’s my first road race of any sort in nearly a decade – I completed 7 marathons in my 20s and replaced running with multiple IVF treatments, 2 pregnancies, 2 births, raising two little girls, and building a business

When I was in second grade, I memorized all fifty states, in alphabetical order in a day, thanks to the catchy song, Fifty Nifty United States. #iykyk

Because I was an 8-year-old overachiever, I boasted to my teacher that I would also memorize all (at that time) 41 presidents in order and that I would recite them to her the next day, giving me roughly 18 hours to accomplish my self-imposed challenge