Archive For June 30, 2020
Women’s Track & Field World The only publication in the world devoted exclusively to Women’s Track & Field. June 1983. On The Road Again. No big head here. When you last tuned in, I had just made the most audacious prognostication regarding the winners of the 1983 BAA Marathon (Boston, April 18). As you remember,…
“There is surely hope for you and your hope will not be cut off.” – Proverbs 23:18 I keep trying to understand how we got here. My core beliefs are freedom and equality and leave me the fuck alone. Like I treat everybody else. I believe in God and I believe She wants me to…
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. – George Washington Monuments continue to fall By Carolina A. Miranda for the Los Angeles Times. June 27, 2020 Last week, the City of Ventura announced it would remove a statue of Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar who helped establish the California missions, from its plinth…
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise. – Joseph Goebbels 100 Reasons Trump Is Unfit to Be President A timeline of…
Women’s Track & Field World The only publication in the world devoted exclusively to Women’s Track & Field May 1983 [Heavily edited for brevity. Shout outs to Charlotte Teske, Julie Isphording and Judi St. Hilaire] On The Road Again It is no easy task to write a monthly column. Honest. Even an effort such as…
My Seattle attorney retires after a forty-two-year career and decides to clear out the storage room. “What a trip down memory lane. As I unearthed this treasure trove of running history, I felt like Indiana Jones.” Turns out I had a column in Women’s Track & Field World. A column about road racing and road…
The New Testament Of The Sport The New Testament Of The Sport was the sub-title of Women’s Track & Field World. Bottom of the front cover ‘The Only Publication In The World Devoted Exclusively To Women’s Track & Field.’ A monthly periodical lovingly produced by the inestimable Vince Reel. Back in the day, you won’t believe…
“You’re too old for her mother.” – Cassie Topaz Malone I never dated Kayleigh McEnany and she can deny it all she wants. I will never lie to you. But people ask about us, if there’s anything going on. And I keep telling everybody, nothing nothing is going on. Nothing is going on between us….
Pain was its own teacher, and there wasn’t any way to learn how it worked but to be visited. If the visits weren’t right on top of each other – if they were far enough apart so you could forget the way it came but close enough to remember it went away – you could…
But, if this part of our history could be told in such a way that those chains of the past, those shackles that physically bound us together against our wills could, in the telling, become spiritual links that willingly bind us together now and into the future – then that painful Middle Passage could become,…