TerumiTerumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys. She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live. She is also known as Scout’s mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo) www.anemeraldcitylife.com
Read MoreThe other night I walked home from an event after a friend gave me a ride and I got a text later that evening “Just checking to make sure you’re home okay…” My husband has been away for work for the week and my mom was babysitting my kids (and I) for the evening but it […]
Read MoreWhen I was contacted a few weeks about a new run in Woodinville put on by Destination Races Wine Country Half Marathons, I was excited to try it but was a little worried because I am in no shape to run a half and I didn’t think I would have enough time to train. My […]
Read MoreOh Halloween you kill me. Every year. And every year the guys get more effective at acquiring candy so the cycle just seems to get stronger and stronger. Eat candy. Mourn eating Halloween candy. Eat more candy. Eat more candy……until one of us gets the willpower to do something about it. Thankfully that someone is […]
Read MoreOne day I’ll be thankful for the hours I’ve put in running, but I’m going to give my legs a little break for a couple of weeks. I just survived my 2nd half marathon in Vancouver at the Lululemon Seawheeze and it is such a gorgeous run. I just got too sweaty that I couldn’t […]
Read MoreAnd by crazies I sometimes mean bears. This past weekend my sis and I did our 10km with some lovely friends and family up in Whistler, BC and it’s the first time time in my life that I ever saw a real life bear without having some kind of protective barrier like a window, or […]
Read MoreA few weeks ago we were craving some prata and I remembered a satay restaurant I’d popped into ages ago. The restaurant was actually called Satay and it was pretty empty when we came in and our lunch of prata, tofu satay and mee goreng noodles was definitely tasty and almost reminded me of some […]
Read MoreThank you amazon. Yes, I totally need a run parachute. Obviously you know that I’ve been searching running shoes and other running things, so naturally you might think this is something I definitely need. But you have not seen my running outfits, and they are garish enough without a giant parachute flying behind me. And […]
Read MoreSo today I’m hanging up the running shoes for a couple of weeks. You’ve heard me talking about running forever and I finally conquered my big run: the Lululemon Seawheeze. I literally ran AROUND Vancouver. It’s pretty much the best type of tour you could imagine, so if you’re thinking about heading to Vancouver next […]
Read MoreIs it Tuesday already? Where did Monday go? This is one of the weeks where everything seems to just blur together and whirl by. Usually Monday I post about things I’ve bought. I’ll get to that. But, the other night my lovely double momma friends and I tried out a sweet new place in Woodinville […]
Read MorePeople always say exercise is good for you but they should also add a disclaimer to say it really hurts too. And sometimes I wonder which is worse, a life with too much exercise or a life with not enough. (Although, I find it best to ponder such an idea while lying prone in the […]
Read MoreSo I’m still doing this running thing. I don’t like to talk about it a lot because it’s oh so time consuming that I don’t like it spilling over to all my other stuff but a friend convinced me to re-sign up for a half-marathon and I did. And because it’s the only place I […]
Read MoreI’ve been running just over two months now, and it’s been long enough to make it almost a habit. I’m up to 5 minutes running 2 minutes walking for about 45 minutes about 3+ times a week so that’s about an hour and a half where I just zone out, feel strong, run my route […]
Read MoreCall me crazy, but I randomly signed up for a half-marathon the other day. To date, the farthest I’ve ever run is a 10-km probably 10 years ago and I’m not really sure why I signed up for it at all except for that morning when I saw an email about it I was feeling […]
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