Writing Reality

"Most items I've laid out on the kitchen table, early last night.  I practically have to carry so much stuff, that I need a packing list.  Running like this is...well, not a vacation.  But it's a like one due to the coordination of scheduling a strategic running route, a feeling of freedom, the packing list and the peacefulness I experience on many of my vacations in Vermont." https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Run-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1987532813

"…As the blood and sweat meld together you never are aware of anything else but the fight.   I was too busy to notice I was even bleeding, and of course that was not the first time, neither would it be the last time that I didn’t know I was bleeding let alone damaged…" https://www.amazon.com/Not-Exactly-Juan-Liberated-Woman/dp/1545243603

"Then I heard her say, 'Jody-Lynn, I'm proud of you.  Come up here to get your report card'.   She smiled.  'Congratulations.'   I was stunned.  Handing me my report card, she continued, 'You did good.'   As she retained her smile and clapped for me.  I thanked her.  I had received all A's and one B, which was in Latin." https://www.amazon.com/Reaching-Gods-Perfection-Stories-Gratefulness/dp/1503237516

"...Phil replies as he sees me go to my pocketbook, ' Oh good.  I can see you now, as someone tries to mug you, you saying, Hold on.  I just have to put my mouth-guard in.  Now try and mug me' .     I respond, 'Yep. That would be me '.     Soon enough it was time for Josh to weigh-in..." https://www.amazon.com/Not-Exactly-Juan-Liberated-Woman/dp/1545243603     

"...I get to the public bathrooms, and see the lady sweeping just inside the areas by the stalls.  I say, 'Yen, doi bu chee'.  In my broken Chinese.  More or less trying to explain money for you and I'm sorry .  While handing her the yen money.  I guessed at the charge.  I figured based on the New Jersey boardwalk, you put a buck or two in the basket as a tip for the ladies keeping the bathrooms stocked and clean." https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/jody-lynn-reicher/

"Much of our runs I'd remain silent, taking in her creativity, and hearing about her children and thoughts on parenting.  As her children finished up college, mine were just entering junior high.  By then Caytha had become so successful, that she now ambled back and forth between Hollywood and New York City ...the big town.  She'd made it..." American River Trail Auburn, CA..  April 2002 with Rae Clark the day before the American River 50 mile Trail Race... https://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Run-Jody-Lynn-Reicher/dp/1987532813/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

   "...  My inner dialog continued , ‘Perhaps, if I ran more, just to get tough again, the pain would dwindle, I'd just run, and limp through it.  I know I've tried that before, but not to the capacity of higher mileage, to act as if nothing is wrong with me.  I know what I'll do.  I'll run the rape course constantly during the week, I'll beat it with my feet.  I have to learn to go into the woods one of these days and just be there, just to realize I'm alive and everything will be okay.  I'm not hopeless."    Book One to be published Mid-Summer 2018.