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Pear Blossom Festival parade marshals have included Governor Holmes (1957), John F. Kennedy (1960), and Frank Shorter (1977) who led over 650 participants in the festival’s first annual mini-marathon. Think January, 2023. Gainesville, Florida. The Florida Track Club’s 50th anniversary after-party. I am having a private one-on-one conversation with Frank Shorter. He’s a good listener….
Sometimes, the best thing we can do for our patients is to tell them what the best behavior is and then negotiate something they can live with. – Nancy Dickey The Doctor Visit Happy it’s just pain. “Nothing we can do to help.” Hereditary. It is not age that’s important. What is your condition? How…
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. – Carl Jung Black is a color. And white is a color, too. Red. Brown. Yellow. You.
The Purple Runner, as far as running-themed novels go, is one of the top three or four stories that speak to serious runners in the language that is accurate and captures the essence of daily training and the runner’s life. – Christopher Kelsall P.J. (Paul) Christman has given us a new book, one many of…
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton Not even a hat. That’s me, in the white jacket and red pants on the right. The tall guy. Standing next to my girlfriend, who went on to marry a doctor. Really loved that young…
There was a time, and I toss this off as an aberration of middle-aged mental illness, I greatly enjoyed Halloween. Downtown Portland. In the Eighties. Could be fun for socialites and serial killers. From November 8, 1989. You are not the kind of guy who would be dressed up like this at this time of…
“Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” – Stephen King, It A quick thought experiment. Instead of talking about the routine slaughter of innocent children and our fellow citizens in schools, banks, nightclubs, and grocery stores. Movie theaters, fitness centers, bowling alleys. Parades. Imagine we were talking about Islamic terrorist attacks. Hezbollah. Hamas. Imagine there…
If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat. – Joyce Rachelle My name is Barker Ajax and I am a deranged maniac serial killer. Never got caught. And this is NOT my confession. Because I never killed anybody. Not yet. Not that anybody knows about. Not yet. What really pisses me off –…
I haven’t seen the movie, but I read the book. And I have studied some history. The Sooner State was settled by cheaters, that’s how it got its name. Rules don’t conquer territory. During the early 20th century, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma were systematically murdered by white settlers. Yet outside the Osage…
Does it change the myth of Sisyphus for you to learn that Sisyphus is paid? – Errol Morris ‘Make America Great Again’ is an expression which must raise a subsequent question. Because it is a puzzle. What era would that be? Putting aside women and African-Americans and Mexican-Americans and Native Americans and gays, as was…