Patricia 
I started running when I was twenty-five years old. I was self-taught. I wore baggy cotton shorts, tee shirt and Keds™ shoes. I was often the only woman in the male bastion of joggers at the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Regardless, I loved running, the freedom, the ease of movement, …
Ramal Road, Sonoma, CA mustard fields February 2015 Saturday bicycle ride near the southern borders of Sonoma and Napa Counties. The fields were alive with workers pruning the still-dormant vines, mustards flowering at full bloom, and Acacia trees lining the roadways. We encountered early spring riders, from the weekend tourist with townie bike and guide …
This Sunday is the Davis Stampede 10k and Half Marathon. I have registered for the 10k race, hoping to clock a decent time in order to place in an early wave for the Memorial Day Bolder Boulder 10k run (otherwise one could be smashed among the almost 50,000 runners who congregate for this celebratory event …
Sonoma Overlook Trail, December 2014 This Sunday is the Davis Stampede runs. I’ve registered for the 10k race, hoping to clock a decent time in order to place in an early wave for the Memorial Day Bolder Boulder 10k run (otherwise one could be smashed among the almost 50,000 runners who congregate for this celebratory …
Thinking about marketing for my small memoir, “First Friends: Love, Loss and Life in Humboldt County.” My son has lots of ideas, from guest posts on runners’ blogs, to contacting local book stores to pique their interest about a home-town author, using social media to advertise the book’s availability, email all my friends and acquaintances …
Patricia, Central Park West, NYC November 2014 “Older, Faster, Stronger,” by Margaret Webb, is a book about masters age women athletes from their forties to nineties+. How do these fit, healthy, strong women athletes, in particular, runners, find the time, the inspiration, the strength to run and keep on running into very old age? This …
Lovall Valley Road, Sonoma, CA January 2015 Early January: single digit temperatures in Boulder but emerging spring (this day at least) in Sonoma. The first bicycle ride of the year was a bust as the front chain ring of my road bicycle broke leaving me with only the highest gear to climb 15% grade hills. …
Cold, single digit temperature days in Boulder require a different perspective on one’s daily activities: we are used to being outside at whim but with this cold, we plan, bundle in layers, and walk gingerly on slippery sidewalks. And then, in the time it takes to watch a long movie, we are back in Sonoma, …
“The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” by Richard Flanagan was one of the most powerful, sad, beautifully worded, thought provoking books I’ve read in a long time. It was timely having just seen the movie “Unbroken” about Louis Zamperini, but much more heart wrenching in descriptions of prisoners-of-war and slaves in Japan, forced to …
Boulder, CO Snowy Morning December 31: often a time to look forward to resolutions and plans for the coming year. It’s also a time to contemplate the year soon ending. I could not have anticipated on January 1, 2014 all the joys and sorrows that occurred these past twelve months. Lists do not do justice …