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My recent Boston Marathon adventure got me thinking of another trip, hitherto unreported. But, oh, look, The Statue Of Inhibitions has expired. It was the Fall of 2014. A more innocent time. I was much younger. And I kept notes. Back home two days, throat scratchy after many hours of public transport.Still processing the idea…
“The faster you’d go, of course, the more you get to see.“ OGORs is about an attitude as much as anything. Dan Dillon had that. He was every bit as graceful as Zatopek, some say. I think he was marvelously expressive, pushing with every fiber of his being. In his defense, when he raced cross-country,…
Wamble (verb): to twist and turn; to wriggle; to roll over. To wobble, to totter, to waver; to walk with an unsteady gait. To move unsteadily. Not all who wamble are lost. We are rolling top-speed along the Currier & Ives Scenic By-Way. Frankly, this adventure was something of a fantasy come true. Or as…
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus The old man finished cleaning his AR-15. Extra magazines, thirty cartridges each. A bump stock. Still legal. Wanted to wear a couple of bandoleros crisscrossing his chest, but thought…
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me. – Sojourner Truth Attn: Florida’s School Children. “Ain’t I a Woman?” was spoken…
In old age one writes, if at all, what one can. – Larry McMurtry, Literary Life. If you have no idea what happened at the 2023 Boston Marathon, then this will all be new to you. If you are wondering what has taken me so long, all I can say is, I was overwhelmed by…
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. – Buddha That photo adorns a marketing email I received from the old grey lady, i.e., The New York Times. A purple sneaker stomping a international symbol of diversity. What the hell? Not even a walking…
A Gathering of Eagles, which I think began as the Golden Anniversary celebration of the 1973 Boston marathon, meshed with The Bill Squires Invitational Memorial. What a party. Like fantasy camp. These athletes were on the covers of big magazines when magazines were big. Small room, many greats, their loved ones and me. Hey, I was invited.
The ‘Logan Roy School of Journalism’? What’s next, the ‘Jack The Ripper Women’s Health Clinic’? – Ewan Roy As the world prepared for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, I was a sub rosa consultant to the CEO of a major shoe company. I was, as so often happened, somewhat impecunious, and he was willing to send…
Janet raced her debut marathon in 1970, among the first one hundred women in the history of the world to finish an official marathon race.