Month: December 2021

  • Travel-less

    What did you want this year … but not get? If all goes well my travel-happy soul will find some relief in the near future, but if you are like me the one thing you probably didn’t get last year was a ride on a plane. The last time I flew anywhere was a few

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  • Merry Christmas

    What did you want this year … and get? Too much. As I was wrapping up my work email for the holiday break yesterday, thumbing through my last few messages, a long thank you note rolled in from the president of a company with which my team does a significant amount of business. It concluded

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  • Don’t Take Participation for Granted

    You can read these words. You have access to knowledge unknown and unfathomable to any generation before you. You are online, connected, exploring big ideas and complex thoughts. Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021. I restarted blogging at the beginning of 2021 after a fairly long absence from the sport. I put

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  • Adventure Runs Season Two

    I may have written earlier this year about how I’ve spent each of the last two summers devising a weekly run outing for my running crew. Each week over about fourteen weeks of summer we would meet at a location I’d disclosed earlier in the day for a six to eight klick run. It could

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  • Interesting Places

    Depending on how the rest of my holiday-countdown week shapes up, how the holiday break happens (or not), and a couple of pandemic-related decisions that have yet to be made get sorted, going out on the winter trails last night for a six klick run in the falling snow may have marked my last run

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