The Saatchi Mile By Sarah Martin HoodAugust 26, 2015November 4, 2018 Categories: work life balance Tags: saatchi & saatchi X 4 Comments It started with cheese fries. College student by day and bartender by night, I was staring down the barrel of graduation with no real plan. I hadn’t spent my summers working internships, and I knew…
The Ice Bucket Bandwagon By Sarah Martin HoodAugust 20, 2014September 4, 2016 Categories: running, work life balance Tags: #icebucketchallenge, ALS, saatchi, saatchi & saatchi X, Walk to Defeat ALS Leave a comment Conveniently, I don’t even have to explain it to you. The #icebucketchallenge. The origins of the challenge are incredible and moving… And the way it’s taken on cult status through the magic of social media…
2014: off to a running start By Sarah Martin HoodFebruary 4, 2014September 17, 2016 Categories: personal reflections, running, work life balance Tags: #30DayChallenge, colt, jeff, little rock marathon, making plans, marathon training, resolutions, saatchi & saatchi X 2 Comments You know those parents who hold off on naming a new baby until they meet him in the hospital? Typically, they have a few favorite names in mind, but they just need to see that…
Halloweek | Trick or Treat By Sarah Martin HoodNovember 1, 2013September 4, 2016 Categories: motherhood, work life balance Tags: colt, halloweek, halloween, jeff, saatchi & saatchi X, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, trick-or-treat 2 Comments After a school party in Colt’s class and costume contest festivities at my office (HIGHLY competitive, especially in the group costume division. This is the same place that hired a real, live camel for Hump…
The camel heard round the world By Sarah Martin HoodOctober 23, 2013September 4, 2016 Categories: work life balance Tags: colt, hump day, saatchi & saatchi X 2 Comments It’s tough to describe the culture at my office. To college kids at career fairs and candidates during the interview process, I describe it as ‘work hard, play hard’. Over the years that’s the best…
South Carolina: Island Time By Sarah Martin HoodJune 27, 2013September 4, 2016 Categories: travel, work life balance Tags: baby shark song, boondoggle, catamaran, daufuskie island, deep sea fishing, gullah gal, harbour town lighthouse, hilton head, island tour, Keeping TIME, life list, marshside mama's, pau hana, saatchi & saatchi X, shark fishing, sonesta hotel, south carolina Leave a comment While work is not a big topic around here, it isn’t because I don’t have a fun, fulfilling job with smart, quirky, supportive people. Because I do! And perhaps my favorite thing about my job…
Saturday Survival By Sarah Martin HoodFebruary 4, 2013September 18, 2016 Categories: motherhood, northwest arkansas, work life balance Tags: boingo bounce, colt, fayetteville, jeff, marathon training, masquerade ball, saatchi & saatchi X, Walton Arts Center 2 Comments Saying things like “we never have plans on the weekend” is like boasting about “never getting sick” during flu season. Knock on wood all you want, but the universe wants you to be wrong. Honestly….
Lately By Sarah Martin HoodApril 4, 2012September 17, 2016 Categories: personal reflections, running Tags: birkman, colt, running, saatchi & saatchi X 2 Comments A few months ago I completed a personality assessment with my team at work. Over the years I’ve done several of these types of exercises, but of all the tests I’ve taken this one seems…
BUST a Move By Sarah Martin HoodMay 2, 2011September 4, 2016 Categories: running Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 6 Comments It now seems like a hundred years since I wrote this. Can that really have been just six months ago? I don't know how obvious it is from THAT post how doubtful I was that…
Push to the finish! By Sarah Martin HoodApril 27, 2011September 4, 2016 Categories: running Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X Leave a comment The race is less than 3 days away! And all of you have been amazing with support and motivation and donations — I can't thank you enough. And I want to make one last push….
This could be the 5-hour Energy talking By Sarah Martin HoodApril 11, 2011September 4, 2016 Categories: running Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 3 Comments I never wanna see another treadmill as long as I live. Well, until the next time it rains. Or until the next time it's dark when I want to go running — because I'm a…
1000 Good Reasons By Sarah Martin HoodMarch 24, 2011September 4, 2016 Categories: running Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 2 Comments I don't really run. We've covered this. Remember? But! I recently committed myself to running anyway. Because I'm that kind of crazy. And because I have this curious urge to do and try things —…
Extended Family By Sarah Martin HoodMarch 21, 2011September 4, 2016 Categories: work life balance Tags: justin leland, saatchi & saatchi X 1 Comment I have been known to joke about my status of “Black Sheep” in a family of do-gooders. Whether it’s military service or nursing or education or medicine, I’m surrounded by people who do very selfless,…
Pows and Wows By Sarah Martin HoodOctober 8, 2010September 18, 2016 Categories: motherhood Tags: colt, saatchi & saatchi X 3 Comments I spent nearly every Wednesday night between the first day of 7th grade and the day of high school graduation at Youth Bible Study at Cabot United Methodist Church. It was a midpoint of the…
The Hoods in NYC – Part 5 of 5: All good things must come to an end. By Sarah Martin HoodSeptember 17, 2010September 18, 2016 Categories: travel Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 3 Comments Read Part 1 of 5 here. Read Part 2 of 5 here. Read Part 3 of 5 here. Read Part 4 of 5 here. Our flight wasn’t scheduled until that afternoon, so we left our…
The Hoods in NYC – Part 4 of 5: Liberty and Midtown By Sarah Martin HoodSeptember 16, 2010September 18, 2016 Categories: travel Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 1 Comment Read Part 1 of 5 here. Read Part 2 of 5 here. Read Part 3 of 5 here. As the idea of this trip was to get in some relaxation and fun, we decided we…
The Hoods in NYC – Part 3 of 5: Fantasy Camp. By Sarah Martin HoodSeptember 15, 2010September 18, 2016 Categories: travel Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 1 Comment Read Part 1 of 5 here. Read Part 2 of 5 here. At the center of the trip package I won that led to this NYC weekend in the first place were four (FABULOUS!) tickets to…
The Hoods in NYC – Part 2 of 5: Empire State of Mind. By Sarah Martin HoodSeptember 14, 2010September 18, 2016 Categories: travel Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X 4 Comments Read Part 1 of 5 here. After leaving The Boy in the more than capable hands of Ninny and Baw (Granny and Pop – Jeff’s parents), we met Teresa and Ryan at XNA for our…
The Hoods in NYC – Part 1 of 5: It’s always best to start at the beginning. By Sarah Martin HoodSeptember 13, 2010September 18, 2016 Categories: travel Tags: life list, saatchi & saatchi X Leave a comment This story starts back in May. With something so outrageous I wouldn’t believe it if it hadn’t happened to me. #68 on my Life List originally read “Win something from a radio station”. But since…
Repeat after me: It’s For The Kids By Sarah Martin HoodAugust 30, 2010September 29, 2016 Categories: Uncategorized Tags: colt, saatchi & saatchi X 1 Comment This weekend was the 2nd Annual NWA Mini Grand Prix. Which – in case you missed it – means that grown men (and women) had the chance to pay (donate!) thousands of dollars for the…