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We received a lovely sendoff from People’s UMC today in their best tradition – with a potluck lunch, flowers, cake, and a poem by Pat. Sue, with your sparkling eyes and contagious smile We’ve loved you being with us all the while We’re gathered here today to honor you and Brian For all the things […]

I’ve always had a little bit of a love/hate relationship with report cards.  On the one hand, I love getting the official grade, the confirmation of how my performance stacked up to expectations, the results of a term, hopefully with some comments and feedback.  On the other hand, I was often frustrated that a single […]

We’re back from our Midwestern holiday tour, which seems to pass faster every year.  Because we now live farther west, we avoided the “woogie hours” at each end, making the trip in under 12 hours each way.  In this in-between day before the festivities of New Year’s Eve, I unpacked, washed, cleaned, napped, ran, and […]

You’ll note that there’s not been a house-related update since we put our house on the market in May.  Suffice it to say that we’ve been disappointed with progress toward selling our home in Newburyport, which culminated this week in hiring a new realtor and adjusting the price substantially.  We are hopeful that we’re now […]

Several months ago, my running buddies at work and I renewed our commitment to run more frequently.  We decided to sign up for a race to assist in motivation.  I’m not sure how we all decided on the Stone Cat Trail Marathon, but some combination of wanting to run trails, the close proximity and excellent […]

It’s been almost a year since I ran my Boston Qualifying marathon in DC, and I knew at the time that the Boston Marathon was already full for 2011.  In fact, it filled up in a matter of hours, well before I even ran my race. There has been plenty of speculation about how Boston […]

It’s Labor Day, and my thoughts naturally turned to Gloucester and those 16 crazy hills. I made a game time decision to run the Around Cape Ann 25K for a 4th time. I’m really growing to love this course that winds around the beautiful shoreline, marshes and towns of Cape Ann.  I haven’t run a […]

We purposely avoided making plans for Labor Day weekend in favor of enjoying a spontaneous weekend of doing whatever we felt like doing, at our own pace. As nice as it is to have every other Friday off, I can tell you that a 4-day week is the same amount of work as a 5-day […]

As the name implies, this was a long hike, which rewarded us with one spectacular view. We chose Mt. Isolation because the weather promised to be dry for the many stream crossings, and we could get an early start for the nearly 14 mile hike (book time was >11 hours). The mountain sits below the […]

I had been thinking about running the Yankee Homecoming Race this year, but my “training” has been more opportunistic than rigorous so I definitely wanted to do a pre-race check before signing up for the 10miler. On July 27 the weather was nice and I got home from my business trip in time to get […]