Looking backwards
Yesterday, needing to get out of the house despite my poor diet of ice chips and freezie pops, I marshalled my energy and walked down to the library. It’s only about a half-mile, maybe less, but I felt drained and…
It’s a fine day to indulge in some ice chips
I only say this because it’s gloriously sunny out, and I’m recovering from a nasty bout of food poisoning. People, let me just dispense one fine piece of advice: when you are three weeks out from a major race and…
The Weekend that Started Early and Would Not End
Egads. It feels like I’ve been running on weekend time forever. It sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Except, see, for us, in these peak weeks of Ironman training, well, the weekends are when we do our long workouts:…
“Is this thing on?”
My pal Mike Smith turned me onto a guy named David Allen, who does podcasts about Macs, and now, writers. He interviewed me about my work, the writing and the editing and all of the stuff that goes on around…
It’s no good, Capt’n, she’s fogged in!
Today is one of those brilliant writing days. It’s raining like gangbusters, and I can hear the sound of the traffic on 287 because of the shusshing of the tires on the tarmac. When I finally took the time to…
It’s a fine evening to stay in
Mike says that Twiglets are good with beer. So I am indulging in that, as a late afternoon snack, and I think it well deserved: today’s triathlon workout was 5 hours and twenty minutes of cycling followed by 15 minutes…
They’re here…
Some people have talismans. I have memories of food, and I carry them everywhere. They do me just as well, providing me with comfort and more often than not some fodder for thought. I know, that sounds bizarre. But it’s…
A review is up
…of Sharon Creech’s Love That Dog. Find it here.
testing, testing
Moving house is never, ever easy. We’ve just navigated a move from our lovely little home in Chicago, Illinois, smack in the heart of Wrigleyville, back to our home state of New York. (This is our home in Chicago.) We…
I like the idea of saying “Hello” to the world…
…but I think that might be a misnomer. I mean, good grief, what kind of P.A. system would *that* take? For now, we’ll just say hello to the blogosphere. ‘Cause *that takes a smaller P.A. system. Later today, and tomorrow,…
