The big excitement in our house is that the Turnagain Arm Trail is cleared of snow. This is HUGE news, since MM and I are both trail runners. Yes, we do run the Coastal and Chester Creek trails, but our first love is being up in the mountains. We ran 7 miles Sunday and my […]

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 […]

Oh,oh, oh! MM and I went back “home” to Seward this past weekend, so I could sign copies of Dolls Behaving Badly at Cover to Cover bookstore. The weather was perfect, sunny and in the 30s. We walked the beach and Two Lakes trail with the dog and then tackled Mount Marathon Bowl on Saturday and […]

Today was my sister Cathie’s birthday, so to celebrate her life I took a 12-mile run over the Chester Creek and Coastal Trail. It was an overcast day and grey, temps hovering in the upper 30s, with a slight breeze that smelled of spring, even though spring is at least a month away. Still, that damp, […]

Okay, okay, I got my lazy butt up out of my writing chair and ran (yes, actually ran!) 12 miles on Thursday. It was the first double-digit run in a month. Surprisingly, it was easier than expected. I’ve been working out for 60-90 minutes four-six days a week, mostly zeroing in on building up my […]

Well, it’s been a bit, no? I’ve been hugely busy with my book release. Dolls Behaving Badly released Feb. 5 from Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, and I naively thought that that would be that, maybe a week of publicity stuff and my life would go back to normal. Yeah, right. I had a week […]