Fire with Fire

Well, I've made good on 36% of the plan I set out to run this weekend. Last night was a twelve-mile run through the valley, followed up with a slow but sure six this morning. It took about every ounce of motivation I had, including screaming into a pillow, to get up and get out …

A Sun-Baked Dozen

You read that correct. Can I get a witness? I might actually need one with the plan I have in place for the next four days. I took the last two days off because of an acute case of gastro distress and some serious mental calamity. That gives me a mere 10 miles on the …

Something to Hang your Hat on

There's an arc to this thing called life, wide and sweeping. A never-ending system of valleys and hills that expose our limitations and bear our frustrations. From time to time, we summit these hills and stare back and down into the valleys below. The distance between where we started to where we are now always seems …

Thoughts on the Move and Everything in its Relative Place

I'm still six and a half weeks till liftoff, but the burners are already warm. Last week I received a phone call from a bill collecting agency letting me know one of my student loan accounts was late. For whatever reason, that was the formal push that finally got me thinking about how much time I …