by Jeremy Topin | Oct 18, 2016 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager, Triathlon
Maybe it’s the Jeep with its top down, whipping thru the wind on the highway. Maybe it’s the music playing…a combination of new and old. Of fast and imploring. Of slow and restrained. Maybe it’s the caffeine from my first cup of coffee in a...
by Jeremy Topin | Oct 27, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
There you are amongst the crowd. One of thirty freshman. And my breath is taken from me. For a moment, the briefest moment, everything else on my mind fades away. The whirlwind of stress that has been the background beat for the last several months is now muted, and...
by Jeremy Topin | Mar 18, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
Traevelling 30,000 feet above the ground on my way back to Chicago, it’s hard not to think about distance and space. How people in the same room can still feel worlds apart while others can be physically separated by hundreds of miles and still be intimately...
by Jeremy Topin | Feb 24, 2015 | Balance, Parenting, Teenager
I pull into the driveway, trying to leave that last of my work day behind. As I enter the house, I am greeted by the all too familiar semi-chaotic scene. Lola comes jumping into the hallway, happy to greet, while my kids stay somewhat immobile in their current...
by Jeremy Topin | Oct 29, 2014 | Balance, Burnout, Medicine, Parenting
It is September 2012, a bit chilly out, a mist of rain that night, and I find myself a few feet from the stage, packed amongst several hundred others at the Metro. Bob Mould comes out with his new band and promptly starts playing the first song from Copper Blue,...
by Jeremy Topin | Sep 25, 2013 | Balance, Parenting, Uncategorized
About a week ago I wrote my first blog about BALANCE. How I hope the journey to another Ironman triathlon will allow me to find more balance in life and continue to gain valuable insight. So it was with enthusiasm I looked forward to my week. To throw myself into my...
