Starting young: Solomon reading with Grandpa Doug Eclectic best describes the spectrum of books I read this year. Some choices were intentional, others were spur-of-the-moment, ten or so were book club picks, still others were recommendations from friends, “best of” lists (a variety of sources, including The Guardian, Bill Gates, and The New York Times), …
Snow Canyon State Park: Start of 10k Race On Monday October 8, I ran the Huntsman World Senior Games 10k from Snow Canyon Park to the city park in Ivins, Utah (near St. George). Over 11,000 seniors (ages 50-almost 100) participate in the Games during the next two weeks in almost every sport imaginable, from …
Pat and kids at Patacanchan Village Festival My older son wrote his college thesis on the concept of “awe:” what did it mean, how was it used, what emotions did it evoke, what was its historical/religious/social context. After many months of research, reading, writing, editing and engaging in discourse with others, he was unable to …
Hamlet may have wanted permanent sleep—I’d be satisfied with six or seven solid hours! When I was young, during my teenage years, I often wandered around our house in the middle of the night. Sometimes, I’d meet my father reading in his red-brocade chair, an heirloom from his mother. We shared these awakenings, nodding or …
Flatirons from east Sanitas Valley Trail. A quiet, cloudy, slightly cooler Sunday morning today. Tired legs tired from Saturday’s long run. Cancelled bicycle ride due to threatening rains and thunderstorms. A hike around our neighborhood loop seemed reasonable (and meditative) substitute. A quick hike up the connector trail to Dakota Ridge and down to Sanitas Valley …
Thirty-two years ago Doug and I got married on the East Coast; he’d moved to New YorkCity in January 1986 where not-quite-five-year-old Christopher and I joined him in June. Since all our family was ob the West Coast and our jobs were all-consuming, we decided on a small affair on Martha’s Vineyard, close enough for …
A neighbor’s yard awakening. My body moved very slowly this morning, the effects of Saturday’s run work-out, 1k and 2k tempo pace efforts. The almost immediate hill at the beginning of Red Rocks Trail was more work than normal, but the clearing mist promised a warm Spring day, welcome after high winds earlier in the …
Big Summer Plans: 2017 Two hours post-break, still in running clothes, the on-call orthopedic surgeon about to reduce my fracture The summer of 2017 was full: family time (a trip to Pennsylvania to take care of our grandson for a few days while his mother was in China/ Vietnam and his father in Armenia/ Georgia; …
[Warning: some of this will be boring if you’re not a runner!] On Sunday I ran the United NYC Half Marathon, my first 13.1 miler since I broke my arm last summer. The course is new, starting at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, crossing the East River on the Manhattan Bridge, looping around lower Manhattan (Canal …
Christopher perusing the “Philosophie” section of a used book store in Berlin. Reading is such an integral part of my days that it often surprises me when I look back and review the list of books read in any particular year. Sometimes, my focus is intentional, informed by current interests; other times, recommendations from friends …