• 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)
• 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)
• About this feature • [1 MIN READ] These here little thought pieces—Cerebruns, I call them—are a feature of the weekly run message I send out before each Wednesday night of Jenkintown Running Company’s Growlers Group Run. The weekly message itself comprises 4 parts: a reminder of the upcoming run, a report of the previous … More An Introduction to Cerebruns (#251: 2024’04’03’W)
• Course Quips • [<1 MIN READ] With 3 of us doing spring marathons (Me in 19: Jersey City. Aaron [Big Sur, CA] and Adelaide and me [Gettysburg] in 33.), the past run was the source of a couple of course quips. Candace’s embraced the best of one particular Growlers Group Run community: “Think of … More D Minus 19 (and 33) Days to Marathon (#250: 2024’03’27’W)
• For the sake of the photographic record • [<1 MIN READ] ”Hoist with his own petard.” One of those old, rarely-used-and-even-less-well-known figures of speech that describes a late-2nd-millennium soldier getting hoisted when his incendiary device ignites prematurely. It also described last week’s attendance picture that was prompted when the springy pre-spring day got me … More The Story Behind the Shot (#249: 2024’03’20’W)
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