Relating to a close group of people who choose to engage in each other’s lives as if they live together, presently, or did in the past
• With a new trailtag • [>½ MIN READ] Gracier (FKA Grace) got a little more attention than usual. She’s more a fair-weather runner than hot, so we’ve been waiting for her as fall approaches. This was also her first GGR after a serious head bonking. She and I did a 12-13 min/mi pace to … More Featuring Gracier (#364: 2026’09’09’W)
• Pointing fingers at Stacey • [1 MIN READ] It was heartwarming to welcome Taylor last week. He and Stacey are brother and sister and he represented a special development with their family of origin. They grew up in Texas and their parents have been living in Florida. They’ve all, including a middle brother, decided to move to the Jenkintown area to be closer to Stacey … More The Gravitational Center of a Universe (#358: 2026’07’29’W)
• What’s the debate? • [2½ MIN READ] One of our ACF guys has a twin sister. This means sis Jada and bro James are fraternal twins, dizygotic, i.e., ones that develop from 2 different eggs. Identical twins develop when a fertilized egg divides into 2, the halves containing the same genetic material. “Monozygotic” twins … More Identical Twins Are Always the Same Gender
• Growlers style • [1 MIN READ] Shoshana arrived to JRC last week just as we Growlers headed out to run the Sunset 5K route (RunORC.com, iCandybyWangC.com). Oh, brother. Her arrival just after we took The Attendance Picture put our minds to J’Adam, who has practically made a career out of avoiding it (iCandybyWangC.com and … More Family Matters (#347: 2026’03’25’W)
• 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)
• The reason isn’t completely crazy • [1½ MIN READ] So about that yellow Bob-the-Builder hardhat that I wear to night-time runs. The more recent explanation is that a bunch of us did the End of the Road Half-marathon out in central PA last year. The course traverses an old section of the PA turnpike … More Why the Yellow Hardhat (#229: 2023’11’01’W)
• We’re talking about family • [1½ MIN READ] Running club as community? Growlers Group Run has that. Couples as community? We have that, too. Families as community? We have even had variations of that (thinking Brigid w mother Nora and Aunt Smileen, among others). As for generations, we have Mo with his grandson Tristan, … More Generations as Running Community (#216: 2023’08’02’W)
• The Mathematics of 4 Co-working Brothers • [3 MIN READ] When Ruby Wang (1932-2018) died, she gave custody of her paintings to us, her 4 sons. Although we knew her death was imminent, we had theretofore little need to consider the inevitable. Knowing her days were drawing short from the complications of pancreatic cancer … More AB≠CD
• The names of Ruby H. Wang • [3 MIN READ] Ruby H. Wang was the name so many people identified with her. It was the name on her social security card, her driver’s license, and her other legal documents. It was the name she most consistently used to sign her paintings because she lived … More All for One
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