Setting SMART Goals to work towards a Wildly Improbably Goal.

Caroline Goldberg Igra is a freelance writer, an art historian, a triathlete, and a mother. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, but maintains a clear footprint in her native Philadelphia. She has published numerous art historical articles, several exhibition catalogs, and a book on J.D. Kirszenbaum chosen as one of Slate Magazine's Best Books that year. Her nonfiction has been featured in several online journals, including Away Journal, Mothers Always Write, Pandemic Journal, and Another Chicago Magazine. Her first novel, Count to a Thousand, was published in 2018. Her second, From Where I Stand, was published in January 2022 by Koehler Publishing.

In her debut memoir From Couch Potato to Endurance Athlete: A Portrait of a Non-Athletic Triathlete (August 2022, Meyer & Meyer Sport), Hilary JM Topper documents her journey of becoming an endurance athlete in her 40s and beyond while also surviving daily life obstacles: operating her own small business and working 60+ hours per week, mothering two children, caregiving for aging parents, responding to deaths of family members and friends, juggling COVID-19 complications, and more.