The movie Tracks, based on Robyn Davidson, who trekked on foot across Australia in the 1970s, is now on Netflix. I watched it over the weekend and was so inspired by this woman who made this journey with her dog Diggity and four camels. The trek was long and looked very tough, but the sweet […]
Month: April 2015
Happy Earth Day – Get Outside!
Today’s running post will be on the front page. What you’ll find in this blog is my story of deciding to run, and then running. I tie in this wonderful outdoor experience with many thoughts that relate to literature and the environment as well as documenting what it’s like to be running in this space […]
Vancouver Sun Run
Back in 2013, before I was running, I did the run-walk fun run version of this race, but this time, having run regularly for 7 months now, I was able to do the run version of the Vancouver Sun Run. However, halfway in, I had an IT band injury somehow but still got six personal […]
Marathons and Climate Change
It’s that time of year again for the Boston Marathon. I read an interesting article, from UMass Lowell, about how students are monitoring weather during the marathon each year in order to characterize climatology of the race so they can survey how weather affects runners. It’s a science project for college students interested in weather–and […]
Up the River
About a year ago I began to write a new novel about an oil spill, based on a fictional tar sands oil pipeline going through eastern Kentucky. But this year has been busy with more books than normal being published at my press, the upkeep of this site, and continued monitoring of our community discussion […]
Upcoming Runs
Getting excited here about some upcoming runs! One is this coming weekend. We have an Easter weekend to visit family, so will be traveling to near where the setting of my climate change novel Back to the Garden took place, in the Selkirk Mountains, which dip from British Columbia into Idaho (where the story began). […]