Archive For December 31, 2023

New Year’s Resolution #1 – Shushing Your Brain

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New Year’s Resolution #1 – Shushing Your Brain

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare Why Quieting Your Mind is Key to Unlocking a Better Life Ryan Holiday on saying no, staying calm, and the costs of chasing after the wrong things. BY CLAY SKIPPER for GQ With the books Ego is the Enemy and The Obstacle…

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Kenny Moore Creative Writing Fellowship Endowment Fund 

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Kenny Moore Creative Writing Fellowship Endowment Fund 

Jogging through the forest is pleasant, as is relaxing by the fire with a glass of gentle Bordeaux and discussing one’s travels. Racing is another matter. The frontrunner’s mind is filled with an anguished fearfulness, a panic, which drives into pain. – Kenny Moore Kenny was special to all of us. We knew him as…

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Happy Birthday, DooDah!!!

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Happy Birthday, DooDah!!!

The old man was way too slow.  But he was still on the move. As you get older, three things happen.  The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two. – Norman Wisdom……  Could I really have been born in the first half of the last century? I actually like being…

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OG Running Store Owner (Laurel James)

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OG Running Store Owner (Laurel James)

 “What makes you think you can take on a woman with five kids?” Seattle’s James Gang was among the first to retail RUNNING magazine. And then I became a store owner myself. Remember one day I sold a single pair of shoe laces for eighty-one cents. Only sale of the day. I’m telling you, retail…

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Waikiki Mile: Back To The Future

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Waikiki Mile: Back To The Future

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. –  Albert Einstein I covered the inaugural Waikiki Mile in 1994 for Track & Field News. I know I did. You’d think I could find the results somehow. But no….

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Beer-Stained Notebook

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Beer-Stained Notebook

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’ – William Burroughs You are perhaps aware of my affinity for William Burroughs.  Not the best guy in the world.  Understood.  But he was an amazing creature.  Studying his Cut-Up style of composition, I decided I’d…

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