Archive For January 1, 2018
The following appeared in When Running Was Young And So Were We. A critically-acclaimed compendium. The first day of January is a good time to give some thought to those New Year’s resolutions. I have a sneaky sensation these are my notes for a talk I gave at a marathon symposium, likely in Greece, in 1979….
Two thousand and eighteen is The Year Of The Dog. I didn’t stay up until midnight. New Year’s is accompanied by some very precise superstitions oriented around bringing good luck. The state in which one finds oneself at the turn of midnight is thought to be predictive of the tenor of one’s year. Kissing someone at…
This from Tampa Bay Times 12/28/17 How weird was the news out of Florida this year? So weird that the popular @_FloridaMan Twitter account apparently gave up trying to keep up with it all in mid-October. He hasn’t tweeted anything to his 387,000 followers since two weeks before Halloween. But don’t worry. Florida’s largest newspaper…