This has been a good holiday season, though staying up late nights, visiting with friends and skyping with family (far-away) has been getting my schedule out-of-whack! I didn’t run for an entire week and then ran today on the treadmill (it was icy when I came to work). Not a lot of thoughts going through […]
Month: December 2014
Of Maple Leaves and Gospel Music
Last night my husband and I watched Nick Offerman’s “American Ham” comedy show. Spiking throughout the routine were themes of getting outdoors and appreciating nature, with the lest segments giving a thumbs up to getting intoxicated (after working hard) and the thrill of admiring something so simple as a maple leaf. This morning I finished […]
Not so Incredible Storms
Earlier in the week I tweeted about getting excited about running in some “incredible storms” Vancouver was supposed to get. This running generation will go down into history as the ones who practiced their sport in elements that are tied to climate change rather than the good old-fashioned single weather events and storms from the […]
We Are Writing the Story
I’m typing this entry today before running; I doubt I’ll have any wonderful insights later because I’ll be running on the treadmill for once instead of outside. It has been so unseasonably cold here that it reminds me of my growing-up years in Chicago. I have run in this weather but not since over the […]