Joe’s Tribute
Six people spoke at Leigh’s memorial service, four family members and two from outside the family. We felt that these would be the six people Leigh would want to speak for her, but also...
Category: About Leigh
50th Birthday
As Julie said in her Facebook post this morning, we should be celebrating Leigh’s 50th birthday today. What an affair that would be! I expect that between family (Coopers, Wallaces, Dickerts, Martins), friends, former...
Saying Goodbye
Said goodbye to one of the finest men I have had the pleasure of knowing yesterday. Randy Smith was a fraternity brother at Clemson. He was also a star football player who turned down...
Leaving Cooper Ridge
Leigh and I knew we were going to write Finding Strong several years before we actually started it. We didn’t know the title (as a matter of fact, Leigh never knew the title of...
Listening to Leigh
There are times when I just feel like I need to hear her voice again. I can do that by pulling out some of the cassette tapes we used for her to dictate her...
Borrowed Wisdom
If you’ve read Finding Strong, you know it was not written solely by Leigh and myself. I wanted input from other immediate family members. I’m also realizing that it might be useful, actually better, to...
Don’t Settle
Leigh’s favorite statements and life lessons – lessons she lived by and that she preached to her runners and students and anyone else who would listen – were “you’re stronger than you think” and...
Leigh’s Lessons – You’re Stronger Than You Think
This will be the first in a series of posts I’ll call “Leigh’s Lessons.” In the book, Finding Strong, Chapter Six, “Do You Want to Die a Slow Death or a Fast Death,” is very...
Taking a Step Back
(hint: if you don’t read this post to the end, you’ll be disappointed, and you won’t even know why.) I think it’s time I take a step back and review my original intent for...
Another Birthday
Most of the Prologue in “Finding Strong” is about our visit to Boone for Leigh’s birthday three years after her death. We always go up on or near her birthday. This year, it worked...