Category Archives: Rants

DNF

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

So it happened.  I finally got injured.  I’ve managed to run injury-free for three years, and during the second half of the Brooklyn Half Marathon yesterday, disaster struck.  I’d texted a handful of friends in the morning and said, “If … Continue reading →

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Through the Looking Glass

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

“`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves   Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves,   And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!   The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, … Continue reading →

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All This

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

I had brunch with a friend from California today, insofar as I could brunch.  But that’s a different story.  My friend had lived in New York for a year before returning to the place from whence he came.  From whence … Continue reading →

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Menacing Earthworks

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

I have been having the kind of week where I am…run down.  I don’t mean that in a melodramatic way — I mean that in a perfectly ordinary way.  I’m quite good at making things into existential crises.  I use … Continue reading →

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The Furniture

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

He’ll like you.  You’re a helluva piece of furniture – Charleton Heston, Soylent Green I think I am, unbeknownst to me, giving off some kind of pheromone that is attracting the North American/Northern European Preppy Manchild.  (The Europeans wouldn’t use … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Blind Dating, Take Two

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

I talked to my mother yesterday.  Well, I ranted and she listened. When are you going out on your blind date? This week.  He wanted to go out on Saturday, but I was on on-call. (I volunteer in a hospital … Continue reading →

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The Love You Take…Part II

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

For years, I didn’t think I was particularly athletic.  I went to a school that turned out Olympic athletes.  Granted, I was co-captain of a well-ranked and regarded tennis team, but this never struck as me being sporty, particularly in … Continue reading →

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I Wish

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

Sarah Rosemary at Sunny Side Up and I are hosting our own Reverb11, a series of prompts to look back on 2011 and manifest the new year.  Please check our Reverb11 pages for details, and join in! Prompt for December … Continue reading →

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Leap

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

Sarah Rosemary at Sunny Side Up and I are hosting our own Reverb11, a series of prompts to look back on 2011 and manifest the new year.  Please check our Reverb11 pages for details, and join in! Prompt for December … Continue reading →

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Clusterf*cked

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

I’d like to think of myself as a pretty level-headed, optimistic person. I surround myself with level-headed people. For instance, when Strand, Kat, and I climbed Mt. Whitney, there was one point when I looked around, and thought, Wow. I … Continue reading →

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