Relating to interactions and practices on a broad scale
• Cerebrun effort and more • [2½ MIN READ] TONIGHT [INVITATION] Forecast says 82° with 100% chance of CtC being at Jenkintown Running Company to join the masses yearning to run free tonight (see Cerebrun for more).* 6/8/2022, W, 6:30 p.m., RUN REPORT Having just run our usual Sunset 5K route for the actual Jenkintown … More Exactly What Exclusive Group Are We Referencing? (#156: 6/15/2022, Weds)
• Pushing the limits of the store that hosts us • [1 MIN READ] The Growlers come in every Wednesday evening, fill in every corner of Jenkintown Running Company, harass the customers, drink beer, and burp. How anti-social can a running group get? Very. Last week we horned in on the business side of the … More Too Close (#208: 2023’05’31’W)
• And what we do about them sometimes • [1 MIN READ] Report: Hello to Army Drew who’s back after nursing injuries. Once around the Submarine Route last week for the first time in 6 months (2022’11’09’W). Shout out to Mo who’s been sending kudos to the whole crew through this editor who’s sending them … More Ironies in Life (#205: 2023’05’10’W)
• Beyond mere socializing • [1½ MIN READ] I’ve been experimenting with running and socializing pretty much since I started running in 2011. What I learned is that it’s a gateway drug, because now I do it even when I’m not running. That makes me an even stranger stranger. How many people go around saying hi to … More Communitizing (#107: 9/3/22 RUN REPORT)
• Sometimes, the harder you try… • [1 MIN READ] There’s one person who’s virtually made a running career with the club by not being around for the picture but showing up eventually to run anyway. If we stall our departure from the store, we can occasionally catch him. Sometimes we’re right and sometimes we’re … More He Who Shall Not Be Pictured (#198: 2023’03’22’W)
• Waaaaitaminit. How many other ways are there to take it? • [1½ MIN READ] The lead up to hump day for me relates to an opportunity I was applying for and spent a good bit of time investing in. They declined to make me an offer. They gave me a reason that I wish … More Don’t Take This Personally (#195: 2023’03’01’W)
• There is research-based evidence • [2 MIN READ] As mentioned regularly in this column, we Growlers like a good beer after our runs. You should know that our name comes from the popular way of transporting beer that one particular brewery writes about (What is a Growler?) with varying degrees of authority. Our Philly-area … More Nonalcoholic Beer? Why? (#193: 2023’02’15’W)
• Of course there’s more than one way of doing it • [1 MIN READ] I would like to believe that I’m above gendered stereotypes (open-minded person that I am), but out-moded thinking can die hard, I guess. I’m not the only one vulnerable to it. When the suggestion came up of what pose to … More The Prom Pose II (#192: 2023’02’08’W)
• Living as an evangelical Christian • I told my physical therapist that I’d be out for a few weeks because I was going to Alaska. Hearing a bit of news like that always makes people think “cruise”; which would be fine if the team of us was actually going on a cruise. So I … More Yes, People Actually Do That
Being a university librarian affords me some amazing opportunities. Like the chance to attend a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate. Every year Arcadia University awards an honorary degree to 2 individuals at both our graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies. This year we honored Montgomery County Commissioner Val Arkoosh, M.D., and 1985 Nobel Prize laureate … More Lectured by a Nobel Prize Laureate and Returning the Favor
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