Relating to getting things done on a day-to-day basis. Consider Logistical.
• By running • [2 MIN READ] Long running has allowed me to do some serious exploration of various localities, including Philadelphia. Most of that running has been of the out-and-back and loop varieties. After all, you generally have to get back to where you started. However, point-to-point can also be an extremely practical type … More Jenkintown to Chinatown (#274: 2024’09’18’W)
• Not really • [2 MIN READ] Already at least 10 years ago, a long-time friend and I were among a few others comparing notes about the things that were going wrong as we were aging. In closing, Friend uttered the immortal quote: “It sucks to grow old.” When running with SRC folk, I’ve taken … More It Sucks to Grow Old (#167: ZY Weekly Newsletter 9/7/24)
• I needed more friends • [1½ MIN READ] During a conversation with my 3 brothers, one asked a sincere question about what friendships looked like in our lives these days. He and the other 2 admitted they probably had no more than they could count on one hand. Not so many years ago, I … More Moving Beyond Acquaintanceships (#166: ZY Weekly Newsletter 8/24/24)
• 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)
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
• Finding degrees of appeal to ease the process along • [1 MIN READ] Part of the human social experiment is learning to live in the larger world. Because I grew up in a relatively homogeneous community, the moment I started college, I had to start learning more about the world outside of that homogeneity. … More Experiencing Other Communities to Learn About Them (#237: 2023’12’27’W)
• To be determined • [1 MIN READ] While WWW has been at Human Robot for reasons elucidated elsewhen, there has been one other destination since the inception of the tradition. HR has many degrees of appeal, but Pizza Wheel doesn’t have the more-than-occasional loud band. It does have a Wednesday-night $10 cheesesteak special and … More WWW at Human Robot, Not Again? (#235: 2023’12’13’W)
• 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)
• Whom I happen to know better than anyone else • [1 MIN READ] The more socially outward among us know how to focus on other people. And I don’t mean extroverts here. I mean those who can keep attention on other people over themselves. I just returned from 12 days in native Alaska during … More All About Me (#213: 2023’07’12’W)
• Uhh, Yep. • [1 MIN READ] It’s easy to forget something during race prep. We’ve all done it. One year while driving to the Frostbite 5 Miler I realized I’d forgotten my bib. Thankfully, Wife was able and willing to drive it over in time for me to clock an official race. It’s gotten … More Forgetful? (#132: 6/24/23 RUN REPORT)
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