I harbor this fantasy in life about living somewhere with trails and wilderness just outside my door. From my little cabin in the woods, I would step out and breathe fresh air, hear my resident varied thrush, and start running for miles on end, never setting foot on pavement, not …
This is one of those posts where I’m writing about a thing that happened a million years ago now (or, yknow, a few weeks ago;) — but that’s how it goes sometimes. So imagine, if you will, back in the holiday season, when people were excited about lights and ornaments …
This is my buddy John: (awww happy in the Gorge last weekend, picture by John) . Way back in the day, we used to work together — his classroom was just down the hall from mine and we both taught Language Arts. In fact, he got all of my students …
A long time ago, in college, I dated a guy who changed my world in many ways — one very specific way I was thinking about this morning. (not from this morning, but some other magical morning: the top of Mt Tabor) . In a typical week, I run at …
