The jungle’s moved back in, seemingly overnight, and the place that was bare is covered in vegetation again. That’s what happens where I live. That’s the way we roll in Western North Carolina. We’d all be covered up with green … Continue reading
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“The worst” is kind of hard to pin down sometimes. Our cat, Lilly, must stay up most of the night. She must stay up most of the night and hunt….because, in the morning, I’m often blessed with the spoils … Continue reading
Some mornings, I just don’t feel like putting the first letter down on the page. I used to write with a pencil….scratchy graphite on coarse paper, slow and …..now that I think about it…kind of sensual. Not “sensual” like “this … Continue reading
I drove all night and into the morning to get to Niagara Falls. Of course, that was the American side….the side on our part of the border with Canada. We wanted to go to the Canadian side. The printer had … Continue reading
I haven’t been doing much running for a while….but this is what it’s really all about for me. I don’t race….but I like to get out in the woods and just move through it. I need to get going again. … Continue reading
When I was just a really young guy….when we still lived in California….I had a couple of these toys. They were pretty popular…in the days before “clackers”. One of the neat things about this particular toy is that the man … Continue reading
I can’t dial it back. When confronted with a perceived lack of real value, my inner cheapskate comes roaring up to the front of my brain and I start to complain. It spoils things. It spoils a lot of things. We … Continue reading
I’m helping Nate get to sleep again, and he’s huffing and blowing air out his nostrils when I ask him what he’s doing. “I’ve got a booger.” “What?” “Inside the tube….inside my nose.” “What?” “Inside the tube….inside my nose. There’s … Continue reading
Our vacation wasn’t like this. We didn’t have a GoPro. No one colored us with colorful chalk. We didn’t run around. We didn’t run around….but man, we sure did cover a lot of ground in a Dodge minivan with 200,000 … Continue reading
Here’s a short documentary about Anton Krupicka, the ultrarunner. What was interesting about this one is that, while it did focus on his running… some, it was mainly about his day to day life….and his efforts to recover from injury. It’s interesting … Continue reading