Well, folks, here is the post I was hoping never to write. My wife Joyce’s seven-year battle with cancer is nearing its end. And unfortunately it is not the outcome we hoped for. After her surgery for colon cancer in 2017, we all hoped she was cured. But in 2021 it returned, having metastasized to …
My Lame Excuse
The only thing worse than running is not running. - Walter Rhein As a blogger, sometimes one goes long stretches without posting, and one lesson I’d been taught early on is not to apologize for that. For there are occasionally more important things to do than sit at a computer and spit out 800 words …
Write On!
Time to take a break from writing about running, in favor of writing about writing. Those of you uninterested in getting into the head of a prospective novelist can return to binge-watching the latest Netflix series, but I hope you’ll give me a chance here. No, bring it on! We can't wait to hear more! …
Good News, Bad News, Food News, Sad News
Wow, it’s been an eventful start to the year. Just a couple short weeks ago it was shaping up to be the kind of Michigan winter I grew up with, snow on the ground for a long time, and I was running laps around my property in showshoes, prepping for the annual Bigfoot Snowshoe Race …
