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 th...

    "...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