Now that the last of the 7 races is DONE, DONE, DONE, I’ve got to do the body disfiguring that I’ve long planned. Years ago I got a tattoo of a globe on the heel of my foot:
(Probably too much information, huh?)
When I started on the “marathons on every continent” thing, I decided that [...]
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On Thursday’s I do this radio gig for a local jazz station, and invariably the host talks about or asks about the whole marathoning thing I’ve been doing. Trouble with all the talk about running is that it gives the impression I’m actually GOOD at it.
I’m not. (Of course, the same can [...]
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You may remember an animated film that came out a couple of years ago called “Happy Feet.” It was sort of riding on the “March of the Penguins” bandwagon, but this time out-and-out anthropomorphizing the penguins.
Still I’m up for talking animals and birds now and then, so I played hookie from the store one Sunday [...]
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