Fun in the Snow, and Respecting One’s Elders

Southeastern Michigan got royally dumped on last weekend, which actually led to more outdoor exercise for me, in the form of shoveling our long driveway. Three times. It's good upper body work. If this keeps up, I'll look like Charles Atlas in the spring. (When he was alive, I mean, not right now.) The PR …

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Chilling Out, and My Vanity Solves a Mystery

ONE GREAT THING ABOUT RUNNING, as most runners will tell you (like one did last night at the ice cream shop) is that it's a great stress reliever. So on Tuesday, when an annoying assignment at work threatened to turn me into a grumpy, embittered soul, I jumped ship and went to Running Lab to …

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Going Green?

For someone from the center of all things maize-and-blue, green was quite a part of my life yesterday. There was the holiday red and green of the Holiday Hustle 5K in Dexter. This run holds a special place in my heart, being my first race, the first race in which I won an age group …

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