My running after the Boston Marathon bombing piece published in the Anchorage Press today. You can check it out here: Tidbits: The challenge of 26.25 miles isn’t what it does to your body so much as what it does to your mind, how it subtly and cleverly wears down defenses, displays weaknesses, uncovers limitations and […]

I’ve been away for a bit. First I wanted to stay silent out of respect for everything that happened at Boston. Then I wanted to write about Boston and ended up doing so, but I sent that piece to an alternative newspaper instead of posting on this blog. It’s easier to reveal one’s more private thoughts when writing to a larger audience. Why is that, […]

Well, it finally (finally!) stopped snowing up here in Anchorage. But it’s nowhere near spring. Last night it was eight degrees at our house. Eight. Degrees. The trails are a mess so I spent the evening at the gym doing intervals on the treadmill. It’s to the point that the guy at the front desk (his name […]

I read this last night in Caleb Daniloff’s Running Ransom Road and had to share it with everyone. It is so wise and wonderful, and true. “But a marathon regulated things, taught me humility. For these four-some hours, I was confined to my body,to who I was, not who I wanted to be, or pretended […]

Did you notice that my blog title rhymes today? I’ll bet that you’re really impressed, eh? (I’m actually a published poet and no, my poems don’t usually rhyme. Or at least I hope that they don’t.) But poems aside, the snow is getting me down. We got dumped with about eight inches of the wet and dreadful stuff. It snowed […]