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Living by the Numbers / Fighting Time
Posted on June 16, 2020 Leave a Comment
I’m someone who likes to track numbers. Calendar dates, meeting duration, time running, distance. Weight. Number of hours fasting. Or feasting. I’m always looking at goals and percentages too. 60% there. 70%. 80%… If the scale says I’m up by 7 pounds overnight (and it has, I assure you), it can ruin my day and […]
First World Runner Problems
Posted on June 10, 2020 Leave a Comment
When I started this morning’s run, I realized, oh crap, I left my hat in the house! I usually wear a cheap baseball cap, one I picked up a couple of years ago at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. I wear it to keep the sun out of my eyes. I realized, as the sun […]
Wisdom from Miss Marple
Posted on June 7, 2020 Leave a Comment
I often have vivid dreams. This morning’s was so profound, I’m still thinking about it. It was about friendship, how some people can be fake–you think they are “for you” but they are secretly cheering when you are down or hurt. Two people were having a conversation with me in my dream and they revealed […]
Running and Me
Posted on May 10, 2020 Leave a Comment
Last year I decided to follow up on a long term goal. I wanted to fully run or jog a 5K. This may not seem like much, but I set the goal when I was 130 pounds OVER a healthy weight. And I had stopped running. When I left the military in 1992, running became […]
Gifting Stones
Posted on May 9, 2020 1 Comment
I’m not very good at receiving gifts. I recall when I was a teen, I much preferred giving gifts than receiving them. I suppose I took the quote “’tis better to give than to receive” more seriously. Or perhaps I didn’t feel worthy of receiving. I remember there were times I’d criticize the gift itself […]
Plated
Posted on May 6, 2020 Leave a Comment
Reflections on a Russian idiom during the 2020 Pandemic.
Unneighborly Pandemic Thoughts
Posted on April 30, 2020 Leave a Comment
It’s getting hot. That’s not unusual for Sacramento at this time of year. But a pandemic, a stay at home order, and the closing of all public and municipal swimming pools is. With the extension of a county stay at home order until May 22, and an expected “no beach” order to hit on May […]
About Masks
Posted on April 16, 2020 Leave a Comment
The other day I had to go into the office building from my safe shelter, so I strapped the homemade, home sewn mask over my face. Babushka sewed it for me, so of course it has flowers and is a bit girly. I would actually have preferred something bright red and angry looking or maybe […]
