I am writing this on my lunch break today, mainly because I have been bogged down lately in getting a book to the printer. The new title, Jim Schaefer’s Two Houses of Oikos, is Moon Willow Press’s first non-fiction title, and I have had a lot of great moments with the book so far. Jim…
The cherry blossoms are blooming in Vancouver today, and today’s run was warm and sunny, promising of spring. My running thoughts were all about Alejandro Jodorowsky (whose birthday is today!) whose vision of the film Dune, based off Frank Herbert’s novel, should go down into history as the greatest film never made. I would highly recommend…
First off, I have had some tough runs lately. I still struggle and don’t feel too past where I was late last year after finishing the c25k program. I can generally run two to two and half miles during lunch twice a week, but lately have had to sometimes walk a block or two during…
Last running post was about the movie Wild; this post is about staying wild, only indirectly related. During my cold, foggy run today, I thought about something that author Virginia Arthur wrote in our Google+ group today, “Stay Wild.” Virginia, a field biologist, wrote Birdbrain, a novel about a woman and her experiences with birding…
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…
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…
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…
I had to take six days off running due to an IT-band injury, but was able to pick up where I left off last week today, with only the last two minutes giving me problems. First, I did what I could to help the healing process on my knee, but isn’t it incredible that the…
This morning I reached my halfway mark through the couch to 5K program. It actually started out to be physically my worst morning yet. I couldn’t sleep last night due to my knee aching. (I was also in the midst of this fantastic book, which kept me up too; I’ll talk about that in a…
“10 miles behind me and 10,000 to go” (from “Sweet Baby James,” song of the running hour) It is truly days like today that one can appreciate the nature on this planet. The day began heavily fogged, with the evergreens just mirages in the distance. By the time I took my break on campus, to…
