All writing efforts, including ones that don’t fit so well in other existing categories.
• Perhaps not as difficult as you think • [1½ MIN READ] Sure, it’s cold for us, but with average global warming that means somewhere else is frying. Okay, fine, you say. I’ll take some of that right now, you say. Especially with so many days of Really cold, you say: I’m staying inside. I’m … More Cold-weather Running (#292: 2025’01’22’W)
• As applied locally • [1½ MIN READ] A few years ago, I started using weekly photos as a way to record attendance. To help keep the, uh, exercise from getting stale, we started shaking up the process. Adopting certain poses was one early strategy. Adopting a one-and-done shooting rule was another strategy (The Attendance … More Cinematic Framing (#291: 2025’01’15’W)
• Looking back and looking forward • [<1 MIN READ] The last time New Year’s Day fell on a Growlers Group Run day was in 2020. Looking back to that year at noon, 3 of us ran. Last week at 3:30 p.m. we did better by 67% when 5 of us ran. The photo captured … More First Things (#290: 2025’01’08’W)
• Sentiments for a different holiday • [1 MIN READ] A podcast that I mentioned in 10’30’W Cerebrun about the phrase “run crew” has had me thinking since the time I heard it. The term “crew” describes running groups that have moved beyond just helping runners get better competitively to helping runners get warmer communally. … More Giving Thanks for the Crewness of the Club (#289: 2025’01’01’W)
• Not me for a change • [<1 MIN READ] So Spouse insists on parking in the next aisle of the lot so that the car can get a little shade which necessitates an additional 50’ of walking. Fine. I grouse about her being compulsive. Fine? But what does it mean when the song on … More Parking Lot Compulsion
• A noble heritage • [1 MIN READ] (Acts 16-17 was my YouVersion app Bible reading for today.) ACT 17:10-11 (ESV): “The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received … More Being Berean
• Literally • [1½ MIN READ] Way back in high school I decided to initiate the discipline of Bible reading in 1 year. It was good! Less than 10 minutes a day. I did it 2 more times through college. ‘Okay, that’s enough,’ I thought. ENOUGH?! Feels kind of insane, really, to say it was … More A Biblical Discipline
• Awkward revelation • [2 MIN READ] My baggy shorts gave up the ghost recently by tearing at the lower seam and I haven’t been able to let them go. Putting them on, the verbal defense that came to mind was this: “It’s okay, there’s nothing to see anyway. I’ve been neutered.’ ASIDE: To be … More Calvin Quip: “…I’ve been neutered.”
• One issue serving the interests of others • [2 MIN READ] One of my several tag lines is this: “Unless you’re trying to be offensive, I don’t usually take offense.” Sadly, I will admit that some people have been offensive and I have taken offense. There are many ways we make generalizations about people … More Sensitive Matters (#258: 2024’05’22’W)
• If not exactly to run • [1 MIN READ] This little running club has been going places. When I first started running with it in 2012, we ran a different route. Now the Jenkintown Sunset 5K route has been a standard along with a couple of other routes for variety. Back then we ordered in occasionally … More Taking the Show on the Road (#257: 2024’05’15’W)
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