Little goals, big accomplishments

When you are trying to learn a new skill, it is very easy to get discouraged when you don’t just pick everything up as quickly as you would like.

At least I do.

All my life, I have been relatively good at nearly everything I put my mind to doing. It has always been easy for me to pick up new skills and add them to my bag of tricks. But then all those skills were either craft-related or academic.

So roller derby is a whole new challenge for me. It is a skill in an area I never challenged myself before and at 32-years-old, it is hard to train a basically unused body to be used. Throughout this whole grueling learning process, which is far from over, I have received so much encouragement and support from my teammates as well as derby girls and athletes from all over who have begun reading my blog.

I thank you all.

Read about my new approach to roller derby here.