Writing Reality

          The rain storms we had yesterday that lasted into and through the evening, I'd wondered when we'd had summer storms such as this.             Prior to last night's storms, during yesterday morning, as I'd finished my training run. I began my 400 meter cool down walk home. I saw two neighbors. I asked, "Do you remember a cool summer like this one?" One said she'd been thinking about that.     The three of us stopped what we were doing and recalled various dates of events in the past 30 years.     After I got home, I cleaned up and went to writing and editing my autobiography. This, being encouraged by a friend, a long time writer specializing in the martial arts who has written for Blackbelt Magazine.      I proceeded to write and edit for hours. I then ran an errand and was back at it again. As I re-read the first 50 pages, I found myself laughing at stories I'd written about on the ...

If anyone recalls the Wendy's 1984 commercial with Clara Peller's phrase, "Where's the Beef?!" It was an iconic phrase that brought Clara Peller a manicurist amd actress to fame along with the phrase. It was in lieu of considering and implying that other fast food burger places may not be giving you what you'd expected when ordering a hamburger out. Today, its the prices of the beef. My thought today was, 'What's with the Beef...prices?' I will quote my middle school French teacher, "Oooohhh Lala!" When she was wondering why you'd barely passed yesterday's French quiz after much review, as she'd handed back our marked up quiz papers. I went to the store today perchance to find the multipack water filter faucet sink version I had a coupon for, and to take a looksee at the organic beef prices and the beef prices in general. I had found that a little more than three weeks ago, a first buying beef at this local supermarket in ove...

  Today I wondered if I could pull off a 4th over 10 mile run in a row. And at that, how far would I run beyond 10 miles? Would I start out by running a mostly flat quiet paved path course; then double back around and stay on a path which lacked any undulating? Or would I venture off the path after two or three miles and get onto Mountain Road for a little over a mile or so and make a left to Edson Hill Road uphill eventually to Weeks Hill Road, climbing up over 1500 feet elevation? That course, the Reverse Edson Hill Road Run I'd never ran nor attempted it in over 4 decades and was uncertain I'd had any possibility to do such. As much I felt my quads giving me hints of being taxed by the last three days of mountainous running, I'm used to being sore and knew I could eek another mountainous uphill then downhill trek, so long as I took a hot bath soaking in the water afterwards.  As I approached the Brookdale Bridge realizing to my left were roads marked 'Private',...

A run I'd never attempted in over the 43 years I'd traveled up north, not even considering it. Last year I did a run up to the Trapp Family Lodge and back to Mountain Rd. Also, it was a run I'd never done until last year. So, for my over 12 mile run this morning a course I'd never attempted this path. So, I did the following this morning: I began at Mountain Rd. to Barrows Road to Trapp to S.Luce Hill Rd. to Haul Road to the Cabin ran down the muddy Chris Trail midway then back up to Haul Road then to S. Luce Hill Rd. to Barrows Rd. And to Mountain Rd. It was a rugged, rocky, lumpy, tree covered, no traffic trail for about 9 miles of the run. I saw Noone on the dirt and trails that I ran on, filled with patches of grass, rocks, and dirt. It rained as I climbed up the dirt and rock filled roadway/trail for 45 minutes of the first hour of the run.  On the return run it was a mostly steep downhill, I had to keep my body loose, my knees bent and jockey back and forth to avo...

If you've ever seen the 1950 movie, "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart playing Elwood. P. Dowd its a comedy-drama about a man who has a puca, named Harvey. Its an invisible 6'3" white rabbit, that he has as a friend. People think he's crazy, as he has these supposed imaginary conversations with "Harvey". I cannot remember the ending, for I saw it in the 1960s as a child.  This leads me to what the writer Mary Chase of the screenplay written in 1944, may have intended; however, it could be left up to the interpretation of the viewers. In my mind as a child, I didn't think talking to an imaginary friend was crazy. And I believe we all do this, even in our adult lives yet we don't usually tell anyone. At least, the older people I treated throughout my near 30 years of doing so did do this.  Some said, they would speak to their dead spouses. Women were more comfortable with it. I can say I am. In doing so, there is this near divine or sometimes divine ...

1977 Cross-country Garrett Mountain   Today marks my entering the 51st year of distance running... I've Raced over 500 events... Was told multiple times I shouldn't run long distance or at all... Birth defects: missing disc in my lower back was not discovered till age 30. I was told it was bad for my feet, especially my left foot. Left fibula was twisted on my talus. Doctor told my mother when I was nearing age 15, that if I stopped running by age 18 my heart would be okay.  I was told a couple times that because of heart murmur, an enlarged heart, defect in left ventricle I'd be dead if I ran a marathon in 1985 just after my 23rd birthday... I ran it anyway.  I was told at age 21 after severe knee pains I'd never run again, eight months later I was back running. Both ankles had issues. My left constantly was sprained(20x). I ran through most of that. They wanted to surgically remove the sesamoid bones in both big toes... I avoided what I felt was the problem causing th...