All writing efforts, including ones that don’t fit so well in other existing categories.
• The drinking kind • [1½ MIN READ] I wear contact lenses when I run (unless I forget to reorder), but other Growlers wear glasses year around. Those glasses are vital, but so are the kind we drink our post-run beers from. We can always drink from the quintessential, red plastic Solo cups and we … More Running Glasses (#256: 2024’05’08’W)
• Me and mine • [<1 MIN READ] Some have heard me say that I find myself to be good company. That means I’m quite happy listening to my own thoughts and amusing myself with my own creativity. Yes, it’s quite pathetic, but I get unfortunate reinforcement from people who act like they appreciate what … More A Sizable Mass (#255: 2024’05’01’W)
• One and done • [1 MIN READ] One particular WWW outing became the inflection point for a feature of the Growlers Group Run called the Attendance Photo. That first photo featured someone who wasn’t actually in attendance! Photoshop them in? Puh-leeze. Why waste the effort when you can use Paint? Keep expectations low I … More The Attendance Photo (#254: 2024’04’24’W)
• 5 Years for Ready Review • [1 MIN READ] I began crafting cleverly considered cogitations for incarnations of this club in 2018. Then, they were available exclusively through email and Facebook. Going back and reading any that happened to be particularly memorable required email and Facebook accounts. And fortitude. Because those platforms were intended … More Archive Complete (#185*: 12/21/2022, Weds)
• Nothing much • [1½ MIN READ] I’m part of a family business (fine watercolor) that takes me to LA occasionally where one of my 3 brothers lives. We 4 sons started it after our artist mother passed on in 2018. During the time when she was still living in the LA area, I started … More A Funny Thing Happened on the Way from GGR (#167: 9/14/2022, Weds)
• Competitive compatibility? • [<1 MIN READ] Andregan were the club reps at Philadelphia’s Love Run on March 24. The two (AKA Andy and Megan) started running with us last year when they were training for Broad Street. When Megan sent me the pic after their finish, I promised to feature it. (L-R: Megan, … More Love Run Report: 03’24’U (#253: 2024’04’17’W)
• Rats • [<1 MIN READ] Runner 1 walked in after driving to the store for GGR, uninclined to actually brave the rain for a run. Runner 2 walked in with equal ambivalence and prepared promptly to go back home. Runner 3 entered having already braved the elements on their walk over and voiced the … More Dedication is Overrated (#252: 2024’04’10’W)
In fall 2023, a group of us at Philadelphia Chinatown’s Chinese Christian Church & Center made a plan to read the Bible together in one year. As someone who had generated not a little notoriety for doing it regularly, I shared the following to help us get started: What We Believe Reading As … More Inaugurating This New Discipline
• Joint effort: Black Men Run • [½ MIN READ] What a great bunch of guys Black Men Run were! It was amazing to get to know them and learn some of their life and running stories. One guy works for Abington Township and another is at Cheltenham High School with JRC (Coach) Drew. 2 … More Thoughts [#65]: Run Report – BMR (8/5/2020, Weds)
• Getting to know about folks unlike yourself • [½ MIN READ] Sometimes plans have a way of just falling together. It helps if you involve the right people. Last week I already said I’d been thinking about joining Black Men Run Philadelphia some time. The problem is that they run right when the Growlers … More Thoughts [#63]: Moving Toward Black Men Run (7/22/2020, Weds)
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