Still Taking Time (Because Time, It Takes)

Just like the 2016 NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers, I've found myself getting comfortable in Oakland. Hopefully that bodes good things. Although I don't think I should hold out hope for a parade, but you never know. Strange things happen. The weekly miles are starting to inflate again. Everything, and I mean everything, is beginning to click. …

New Surroundings

I find myself just standing or sitting wherever I am and staring around in a giant, mesmerized stupor, like I'm just opening my eyes for the very first time. In a lot of ways, I suppose I am. It's not everyday you find yourself in completely new surroundings, let alone halfway across the country you …

I Ran Long

After closing out nearly six years at my full-time writing gig last Thursday, I set out into the Cuyahoga Valley National Park the following morning in search of 20 miles of trails. II chose mid-morning because I wasn't the slightest bit interested in getting up so god damn early to run, but didn't want to fry to death running …

Cloudy Skies Eventually Pass and Make Way for Solid 800s

Is this a Backstreet Boys' song? Is my love all I have to give? This, and more, in the following prose. I'm sitting in the back patio section behind the Stow Nervous Dog location, my writing home of the last, jeez, what, eight years? Maybe nine? Hard to tell. Usually when I look at the …

A lot like Prom

Think back to your senior prom. Good times, right? You had the suit/dress. If you went all out, you had the limo, the fancy dinner, the big group of friends to share it with. There were streamers and balloons and confetti. A band or DJ cranked out the hottest hits of your era. The night …

Rocky Mountain, Rocky Times, Keep on Rollin’

Well, the fires have been burning a dual-sided candle. The only thing that has me worried is just how thick my wick is. But never mind that. There's a big, bright, blue, beautiful world out there lying dormant and waiting for people just like you and I to come along and tap it for all it's …