A virtual run brought to you by the letters M and M. At 7 AM, before heading out, I ate half a bag of peanuty chocolate candies that melt in my mouth and not in my hand (but to be perfectly Frank Drebin — they do melt in my hand). I’m trying to tell myself […]
I was supposed to be running in Louisiana this weekend. I had registered long ago in the belief the pandemic would be over. Texas and various Republican “leaders” would have you believe either there never was a pandemic or that the contagious deadly virus was overblown and any danger has long since passed, I’m not […]
Phew. This is going to be a little “no-one-cares-but-me” inside “web” baseball. I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to swap over hosting companies as my old one was giving me some grief about the number of “nodes” my site had. Despite paying for “unlimited storage” so I didn’t need to ever contemplate such things, […]
It’s amazing the things I used to do, the life I used to lead before the dark times. Before the pandemic. Maybe even during the naive early days of the pandemic when I still thought there was a chance things would calm down sooner rather than later. I opened my email this morning to a […]
Yeas ago I ran the Lost Dutchman Marathon out in Apache Junction, AZ. It was a beautiful course and a lot of fun as we were met at the finish by the prospector mascot and his burro. They couldn’t hold an inperson event this year so opted for a virtual race, as so many other […]
Has it been a year since I was in India? It feels longer. This world has been through such turmoil and upheaval in 12 months… and honestly four-plus years since the rise of mainstreamed Trumpism. But the last year especially, with the rise of Coronavirus and Quarantines… and the continued devastation it wreaks on our […]
Sometimes running really is dopey. Today was the day I needed to do my virtual marathon for the Dopey Challenge… and I was less dopey and much more grumpy. It was chilly in the AM and I was hesitant to get out the door. But when you commit to something you try and follow through, […]
I cannot believe Congress adjourned for the weekend. In the midst of a constitutional and social crisis, a time of the greatest urgency to ensure things don’t get even worse, they’re taking the weekend off. If ever there were a time to work through and get things done, it’d be now. I’m just… flabbergasted. I […]
It’s hard to write anything at the moment. I’m still reeling (and will be for some time) from the madness of the mob on Wednesday. And I’m angry at the various people now acting like they weren’t complicit in the whole thing, that somehow they are outraged that “other people” would do such things when […]
I am left speechless and stunned by yesterday’s failed coup by Donald Trump and his marauding thugs of followers. This is the United States of America. This is institutional racism writ large — the relative kid glove tactics for responding to treason and armed insurrection compared to the violent responses to peaceful protestors at Lafayette […]