Louellen Coker | Journey Monkeys https://journeymonkeys.com It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:28:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://journeymonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-jm-favicon-1.png Louellen Coker | Journey Monkeys https://journeymonkeys.com 32 32 Book Review: Dream Big by Kat Kronenberg https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/book-review-dream-big-by-kat-kronenberg/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/book-review-dream-big-by-kat-kronenberg/#comments Wed, 24 May 2017 14:51:54 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=596 Kat Kronenberg’s Dream Big was an accidental find for me. I was in search of a book by the same title to check off a genre on the PopSugar 2017 reading challenge that I’m having fun with this year. As I shared with you in my review of another book by the same name, anything with “Dream […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/book-review-dream-big-by-kat-kronenberg/feed/ 1 Let’s get this Party Started https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/lets-get-this-party-started/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/lets-get-this-party-started/#respond Wed, 17 May 2017 14:26:38 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=614 Spring, ah, Spring! Quite possibly my favorite season of the year. I have to agree with Robin Williams: “Spring is nature’s way of saying, Let’s Party!” Days start to get longer, brighter, warmer. And if you sit with what nature is doing, stop a moment and look around, you’ll see that you’re standing in the […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/lets-get-this-party-started/feed/ 0 A Race Plan for your Tri Keeps Race Day Jitters at Bay https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/a-race-plan-for-your-tri-keeps-race-day-jitters-at-bay/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/a-race-plan-for-your-tri-keeps-race-day-jitters-at-bay/#respond Wed, 03 May 2017 17:19:16 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=618 The 2017 triathlon season is well underway here in Texas and we’re getting ramping up for two races: TexasMan Olympic Triathlon (April 30) and our “A” race, the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon (June 11). Let’s face it. Race day can be stressful. Whether it is your first race ever, first race of the season, 100th […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/a-race-plan-for-your-tri-keeps-race-day-jitters-at-bay/feed/ 0 Book Review: Dream Big by Leslie Zimmerman https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/book-review-dream-big-by-leslie-zimmerman/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/book-review-dream-big-by-leslie-zimmerman/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:30:27 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=593 I learned about Leslie Zimmerman’s book, Dream Big, while I was reading George W. Bush’s Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors. Zimmerman, an Army Sergeant, served as a medic in Kuwait and later in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She returned home with PTS and depression and was spotlighted […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/book-review-dream-big-by-leslie-zimmerman/feed/ 1 Rising to POPSUGAR’s 2017 Reading Challenge https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/rising-to-popsugars-2017-reading-challenge/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/rising-to-popsugars-2017-reading-challenge/#respond Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:10:31 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=565 Who doesn’t like reading a good book? I’ve not ever tried a particular reading challenge, rather been tossed along as a pebble in a stream from one book to the next. Sometimes getting stuck in a rut and doing a marathon read of an entire series or settling into one particular genre or the other. […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/rising-to-popsugars-2017-reading-challenge/feed/ 0 What to do when the bed bugs bite https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/what-to-do-when-the-bed-bugs-bite/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/what-to-do-when-the-bed-bugs-bite/#respond Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:09:17 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=576 Many of us grew up with our parents tucking us in saying, “Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite!” I didn’t realize until I was an adult and traveling around that bed bugs were a real thing, rather than a fictional creature that plagued bad little girls and boys. Sadly, I’ve learned […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/what-to-do-when-the-bed-bugs-bite/feed/ 0 Book Review: Jump by Steve Harvey https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/book-review-jump-by-steve-harvey/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/book-review-jump-by-steve-harvey/#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:01:46 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=555 I’ve been reading a lot of fiction lately, and with the new year, I thought it might be good to peruse a good professional book. One of my goals this year is to dust myself off and restart my goal of travel and lifestyle writing, and one of my favorite quotes is Jump, and the […]

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