Writing Reality

    "...I've also learned how to relieve myself while tying my shoes at the same time.  One time I saw a German, female runner do something like this, it was about twenty years ago.  She peed in front of thousands of people...  Facing the crowd, she stood by a telephone pole, squatted and well...All's well that ends well.      Almost every time ...while running, I think of her lack of modesty.  It's a mind-blower to me... I'm a little too modest for that talent." Dr. Jim Manning giving me Congrats April 2006 at the Cape May Lighthouse, with Jack Crilly looking on. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1503237516/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2

    "...That night I just can't sleep.  We have Sarah Qi Qi between us in our bed.  By quarter past one, I need to write.  I can't stop writing in my head.  I decide to write in the bathroom, drink green tea, and check on Sarah Qi Qi every ten to fifteen minutes.  I will try throughout the night to get some diluted Gatorade in her. ...By nine in the morning we get fourteen ounces of diluted fruit punch Gatorade in her.  Throughout the night I watch her lips move in the dark.  I check her abdomen and chest with my hand. I listen to her breathing...She sleeps even as she swallows the Gatorade through the night..." https://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Changsha-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1542599083/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

     "...There were mornings, before and after we became parents that I really wanted to stay close to home, even though I knew I had to get in a fifty mile training run.  The night before, I'd boil potato perogies wrap them in triple plastic, and run with them at four in the morning, and hide them in a branch in a tree in front of Mr. McCourt's home on Glen Avenue." https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Run-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1987532813

    "...Continuously, thoughts float in and out of my head as if insanity now were really taking hold. The same insecure feelings I get the day before a marathon have arrived. It's been nine years of marathon racing and still, I have little control over these feelings. And the last fourteen months; have been worse. It's as though the negative cables in my mind were getting so big, that perhaps, I should now, no matter what my heart says, go back home, before its too late. Before anymore humiliation should occur. Saving face. Perhaps being accepted by society, yet knowing in my heart that I could not accept myself for the rest of my life.       Then I realize that would be against everything I'd believed in, yet it is logical. Anyone else would quit now. They would save face and pretend they just changed their mind, and that running really never meant anything to them, lying to themselves and others, perhaps. Acting as though they're happy with that choic

    "...Phil, and Mark are pleasantly surprised, and so is her coach.  I gave her a good got of it.  And that was my job, besides getting in some good free sparring.  As we shake hands and hug again, I'm having a tough time getting out of the ring.     I held someones's shoulder to not fall, because I couldn't feel my feet....     Phil replied, 'Jody, you did great!  How do you feel?'     I replied almost laughing, 'Well, my back and SI joint no longer hurt... Buuuut , see my feet?  They're numb on bottoms, and my right foot hurts really badly at the toes.  My Raynaud's Syndrome flared up a bit today.  Otherwise I'm pretty good.'..." https://www.amazon.com/Not-Exactly-Juan-Liberated-Woman/dp/1545243603/ref=la_B00R3VUZ18_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532657656&sr=1-2

    "...Herbie smiled, 'I won't tell Mom'.     I continued, 'I got a quarter and I wrote my I.D. down, put it in my pocket.  I'm taking Kinderkamack Road.  It's like a straight shot.'     He responded, 'Okay have Norman call me when you get there.  You got a quarter?'     I responded, 'Yeah.'     He smiled, 'Wow!  Here's another quarter.  Neat.'  As Herbie smiled, and bobbed his head up and down, I took his quarter..." https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Gods-Perfection-Stories-Gratefulness/dp/1503237516            

    "...The door opens and there's Phil, 'Jody?'      "I respond, 'I think I have a little problem.  I need your opinion.  Watch what happens when I blow my nose.'  I blow my nose, the eyeball feels like it's rolling around.     Phil remarks, ' Ooooh , that's not good.  Looks like an orbital blowout.'..." https://www.amazon.com/Not-Exactly-Juan-Liberated-Woman-ebook/dp/B072HN2GFV

    "...After I stepped out of my car, the damp cold air made me get back in, and wait to see where Dante was.  Then I looked around in my car and out the rear view passenger window, and then there was a guy, springing off the ground as he ran.  It was Dante.     I got out of my car and jokingly said, 'What, you did a fifteen mile warm-up for me?'  Dante had raced across America in sixty-one days..." https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Run-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1987532813    

"...She begins to check Sarah Qi Qi.  She checks her heartbeat, checks her lungs.  The she begins to yell at us in Chinese.  We need a translation here.  Someone called, William says, 'She said that this child had bronchitis.  How come we did not tell her?'  Norman and I respond, 'She was sick, but we did not get a diagnosis from the doctors in Changsha'..." https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jody-lynn-reicher/priceless-in-changsha/

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2/27/93 11:58am     "...I'm back. We have sunshine today. We are supposed to see temps in the mid-thirties which would be wonderful. Yesterday, I took my car to the dealer to be serviced. I ran while the car was being worked on... about fifteen miles. Today, I'll run an easy five, because tomorrow I want to run long again.        Last Sunday I ran approximately twenty miles in a snowstorm. Vince wanted to go to a model train show at Ypsilanti (near Ann Arbor) High School. I went with him, ran over to the Eastern Michigan University Campus and ran on plowed bicycle paths. A cart similar to a golf cart was out plowing the paths, so I followed from a distance. It was twenty-six degrees and windy. I have enjoyed a good week of running. On Wednesdays I join the Brighton running club and run with the "boys" as I call them.        This past Wednesday I ran well. I haven't attempted speed in my running because of the snow and ice. I lack discipli

       https://www.amazon.com/Jody-Lynn-Reicher/e/B00R3VUZ18 Author Bio:     Jody-Lynn Reicher, who started running in 1976, served in the U.S. Marines in the early 1980's. She went on to become a marathoner setting her sights on Olympic level running. After tragedy struck in 1991, she ended up having spinal fusion surgery which diminished her goal of Olympic marathon racing. She thus went into ultra-marathon running, changed her career from finance/accounting to provide massage therapy and bodywork for medical purposes. She currently also is ART certified since 1997 as well. She deals primarily with pain patients, and injured athletes in her therapy business.  Jody-Lynn in changing her type of running to accommodate her physical damage then became a Badwater Ultramarathon Veteran, three completions of the original course 2002,2004,2005. She is currently still running, and is also currently working on a revision of her first book "The Endurance Athlete's Guide to Nutri

    "...Why I competed against men in ground fighting...??? I had no choice for the better part of my grappling training.  And in the beginning of my first competition the guys at my level were closer to my 105/106 than the women. To get more "practice" in (started fighting just before age forty-eight, and that type of ground training just before age forty-seven),     In competition I grappled men up to 160 pounds.  And women upto 180 pounds, when I was a novice I competed against women all the way up through expert.       My coach noticed my game improved the more pressure anyone put on me, my form improved almost magically.  The men in the gym who I typically grappled "live" with were over 150lbs, average 168lbs, worked "Live" as heavy at 278lbs.      Drilled with men upto 320lbs in training. I'm by no means great.   Coach Phil Dunlap calls me "The Little Engine That Could". It's just about effort and throwing away the EGO.

    "...The scenery was like that out of an old, Russian movie, or a little scene out of  'Casablanca' with an Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart flare.  Men with automatic weapons..." https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1542599083/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3

"....Dear Jody, February 26, 1993     Here's a couple of neat quotes; "We reason deeply when we forcibly feel"-Mary Wollstonecraft. "Our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart."-John Steindl-Rast. I love quotes. I especially enjoy Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry John Thoreau.      I will start to write this morning and probably finish tomorrow. I'll get back to answering your letter. If I ever develop a serious pain, I'll buy castor oil and follow your therapy treatment as you described in your letter. I have African oil that I massage into my legs.     I just completed reading your pages on the heart, following our hearts, getting within ourselves...getting inside yourself. I know exactly what you are saying. I enjoy your references to Martha Graham. She's insightful. I learned my personal security, my safeness within myself, when I was a young child.

"...As free as I may feel as I run at times, my conscience follows me everywhere I run.  There is no escaping it.  A person can remove themselves from what they think is someone else's problem; later only to find out, even if it wasn't their problem it was their lesson, and it will keep following them until they work at their reaction to it, such as embracing the fallible." https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1987532813/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

    "... Detective Swartz, Norman and I went to The Forum Diner for a late lunch. Not having eaten since the night before and starving, I ordered a bagel with lox and the works. Not a smart idea on my part, my hunger was so intense I did not think of how painful my face was. I couldn't open my jaw, it was quite painful, and that level of pain in the jaw would remain for the next six weeks.     I kept a straight face, realizing this must look so silly, me trying to open my mouth when I barely could and venture into capturing the bagel sandwich from other strategic angles. Detective Swartz couldn't get over my 'non-hysteria', and my constant upbeat attitude." https://www.amazon.com/Jody-Lynn-Reicher/e/B00R3VUZ18

 "...Just as I finished, a young man standing outside the room entered.  He'd been in the audience.  Somehow, security didn't catch him.  He found his way back to our area.  He wore glasses, baseball cap, opened zippered sweatshirt, t-shirt, jeans, stood about five foot nine inches tall, seemed lean, clean cut and about twenty-seven years of age.  A regular guy.     He looked at Chris sitting on the couch.  Holding out his hand, he shook Chris' hand.  He said, 'Hey, you did good tonight.  It was so great that you stepped into the cage and fought.  I know you got injured.  But I gotta tell you, my parents...'  He shrugged and paused for a moment.  'My parents really hate this stuff.  Fighting.  But tonight they came with me to watch with me.  And they saw you, they thought you were the coolest thing.  I'm sorry what happened to you.  But I think you're cool.  And my parents thought it was great... my parents can't get over you.  Thanks'.&quo

"I exited the store's driveway, and off I ran, crossing 644, then going over the railroad tracks.  The sun beat down on me.  I glanced over to my left at the baseball and soccer fields.  I can't remember what game was going on, that is how quickly I turned my attention to the road." https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1987532813/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1987532813

I was the first out the door. I looked up at the sky, and it was a beautiful summer day. I turned to my husband and Detective Swartz and said, “Boy isn't it a beautiful day?” The detective smiling replied, “She is something else.” Norman said smiling, “Yep. That's Jody. That's my wife.” And they both shook their heads and chuckled. https://www.amazon.com/Jody-Lynn-Reicher/e/B00R3VUZ18/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_10?qid=1418802234&sr=1-10

     ... While entering the woods, gingerly, two of the other North Haledon police officers wearing short-sleeved shirts, I saw a bulldog USMC (United States Marine Corp) tattoo one's left upper arm. The younger of the two had steel blue eyes, light brown hair. He was physically fit, clean shaven, strong-looking, at least six foot tall, yet had blood shot eyes. He turned to me and looked mournfully, staring at me in disbelief, and said, “I heard you're a Marine. You know what? You're tough.”       I was blown away. I didn't expect that at all, but I could see his query, and his hurt of brotherhood in his eyes, and he continued, “I try to be.” https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B00R3VUZ18/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_10?qid=1418802234&sr=1-10&redirectedFromKindleDbs=true

    "...We waited inside and talked in the back area of the police station, and hid.        By now the mayor of North Haledon had called and wanted to know the name of the victim and so did the newspapers.      The police told them all, including the mayor, that it was confidential, and I was protected by a victim's privacy act..." https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B00R3VUZ18/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_10?qid=1418802234&sr=1-10&redirectedFromKindleDbs=true

    ...I thought, 'Thank God! This is disgusting. I must be dead this is so unreal. How did this happen?'      His left arm was still around my neck, my right arm still pinned as he put his right hand to his face saying, “I don't know. I just don't know.” https://www.amazon.com/default/e/B00R3VUZ18/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_10?qid=1418802234&sr=1-10&redirectedFromKindleDbs=true

  #37...01/08/2004.. Any Given Saturday ----Jody-Lynn Reicher     I played football with my brother and his friends from age four to fourteen.  My brother and I were unbeatable on the same team.  My brother was quite often Ken “The Snake” Stabler or Fred Belitnikoff of the Oakland Raiders.  I was either Larry Czsonka or Mercury Morris of the Miami Dolphins.  I usually was Larry, because Don was usually “The Snake”.  My brother was two years my senior, so he was kind of the boss of me.  However he wanted to play the game, was the way you did it.  Me, I didn’t care.  I just wanted to play.     Saturdays before we’d head out the door Don carrying the football.     Mom would look at us and say, “Young lady, now you know your Dad doesn’t approved of girls playing football.”     I would respond shaking my head, “Yes Mom.”      She continued, “So be careful and...”  She gave me that look, “And don’t let anything happen.”  I knew what she meant, ‘You are your brother’s keeper.’  It w

"Barely Alive" ---Jody-Lynn Reicher     Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump .  Feeling the vibrations getting closer, still being stunned.  Unable to think to move.  The taste of dirt in his mouth, his nose feels scratched. - Whoosh ... Whoosh ... Beep, Beep ... patter, patter, pitter, pitter. A pair of feet run by.  He feels the eyes gaze down at him, with immense sorrow and pity.     Not many beings can have such a sense of feeling the security and warmth of a young loving heart. But he's gifted.  He hears her thoughts as she leaves him.  He senses her feelings of guilt for not giving him more love.  He picks his head up, vaguely seeing the bottom of sneakers departing.  Seeing at first mostly a white speckled band in front of him, he realizes he's not home.     He's confused and trying not to get upset, he knows he must regroup if he were to ever find his home again.  Whoosh... Whoosh ...  He hides his face.  The running sneakers are now out of sight. 

    "...Norman then explains, The Badwater 135 Mile Ultra Race to Samuel.  How he crewed the last two years and I ran those two years.  Samuel's head tilted with wonderment.  Norman describes what I've done in the race.  Samuel then tilted his body from the waist up, arching his back, rolling his eyes and giggling.  He said, 'Women in China don't run'." https://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Changsha-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1542599083/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

    "...On Tuesday, March 24th, 2009, I received a phone call from retired detective, Dolores Most at my office.  I called into work to check messages, while I took care of our youngest daughter, washing the bathroom and kitchen floors before going to work.  I heard the detective's message to call her at home, or on her cell phone..." https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Run-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1987532813