Regina K. Murphy

After a courageous year and a half battle with cancer, my aunt passed away peacefully in early June. Her beautiful obituary is posted below: Regina K. Murphy, “Jeannie”, of Hingham, was the daughter of Ralph MacDonald and Sarah Fenton MacDonald, born on June 22, 1951, in Portland, Maine.  She was the third of four siblings, including her sister Teresa and her brothers Rick and John.  She attended grade school at St. Patrick’s and graduated...

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Introducing Bennett

Introducing Bennett, my new best friend! I adopted him from the Animal Welfare Society in Kennebunk. They think he is part Australian Shepherd, part some kind of retriever. He enjoys digging in the sand, sleeping in the middle of doorways & kitchens, and hogging my bed. Solo & Bennet...

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15K!

Photo by Jim Rhodes of CoolRunning Last time I wrote about a running event is was my 10K-- my next goal was a half marathon. My freshman year roommate, Colleen, and I had pick out a race at the end of April. Unfortunately, spots sold out before we had the opportunity to sign up. Instead we compromised with a 15K race (9.3 miles) in early May. We ran the Boston Tune-Up 15K. The majority of runners were prepping for the Boston Marathon, so...

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Leave of Absence

It's a bit of a complicated story for another time, but I have taken a leave of absence for this spring semester and plan to start up again in the fall, perhaps the summer.  So far some time off from school has been exactly what I needed-- it has left me plenty of time to spend afternoons in the park with Solo....

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Panama!

Since graduation, my best friend since high school, Natalie, has been living in Panama. I had always said I was going to visit, but our plans finally came to fruition over spring break. I was only there for a week but Natalie had a schedule lined up so I would see as much of Panama as possible. Natalie, who has since returned home, was living with a Panamanian so we got the native's perspective of the country. The flight down was painless,...

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The Move.

I spent my first two months in Boston crashing with Rachel. She technically has a one bedroom apartment off of Oak Square in Brighton, it conveniently has an "office"/large walk in closest. In theory this sounds like a really great place to throw a mattress on the floor and live with relatively cheap rent. However, living on the third floor with slanted ceilings and no windows was not all I had hoped for. After finally settling into the city,...

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My first 10K!

Photo taken by by Maine Running Photos As some of you may know I've been on a bit of a fitness kick lately. I started running in the spring, and started off not even being able to run a full mile. I completed by first 5K at the end of July, crushing my personal record, and decided to set my sights on a 10K. I ran the Portland Trails Trail to Ale 10K at the end of September! It rained the majority of the run, but I did it!! My goal was...

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Boston!

It's October, and I'm a month into grad school, how is that possible? I'm taking 18 credits, one of them is yoga so technically it's only 17. However, grad school credits are not like undergrad grads. They're scary, and hard. At this point I'm not working. I thought maybe I would, but the first week of classes crushed that dream. But really, how am I supposed to get this all done? The professor of my Women, Children, and Adolescents class (who reminds me of all of my Wheaton WS professors) told us the trick is not to actually read anything,...

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Summer 2013

So I'm a little behind on my posts. Its been a crazy six months! Lots of big changes!! My summer consisted of lots of work and relaxing at home. Here is a list of the highlights to get you all caught up: Worked full time in Portland as a Customer Service Representative Worked part time at the Ocean Park Soda Fountain scooping ice cream  Started running (ran in my first 5K) Got to spend about a week with Hannah who was visiting from...

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Deposit submitted!

After a fantastic weekend spent on campus and in Boston, I have officially accepted my offer to attend the Boston University School of Public Health in the fall! The accepted students day was really informative and helped to solidify my decision even further to attend BU. I got to meet with professors and students from my concentration, International Health (IH). I also may have been swayed into adding a second concentration, Maternal...

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Boston University

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