While trying to come up with a meaningful topic for the morning, I spent a while online tracking my friend Ben finishing the Charlottesville Marathon. Several miles from the finish line, he was being paced by the women’s leader of the race, and he was slowly creeping closer to her. It was good drama,...
Read more →A few days ago, one of my classmates from high school mentioned on Facebook that after a long time away, he and his family had moved back to Albuquerque, and that he was looking forward to reconnecting with old friends. When I knew him in high school, we had been in student senate together...
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Today was a Saturday well spent, at least as far as I go. I usually spend them doing little productive. I’m a very poor maintenance person. That said, I had two main goals on my list, and I wasn’t sure if I’d get them done. The first, cutting back the rose bushes in the...
Read more →Hearing this afternoon that Sports Illustrated had a new issue coming out soon with Cub’s phenom and NL MVP Kris Bryant on the cover, I visited the Barnes & Noble website to get the phone number to a store here in town in my sort-of neighborhood. I had to ask Jeff the Magazine Guy...
Read more →This morning, I met my regular running buddy Kurt for our semi-weekly trot of torture around the Academy Loop. It’s not always a trot of torture, but this morning, it was especially , ummm, “invigorating” because the thermometer read 27 degrees at the house when I left it at 5:50. Bundled up, I met...
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