#seenonmyrun

So I started a Twitter hashtag to keep track of the interesting, beautiful and just plain weird things I see while running. A few...

it's a döne(r) deal

It's official: We're moving!But not to Portland or San Francisco, as you may have thought.We're just moving across town to a nicer...

what to do on a rest day?

Watch running movies.Last night we saw Without Limits, one of the biopics about Steve Prefontaine.Yes, folks, there are actually...

powered by cebiche

While everyone else was indoors watching football this afternoon, I was outside powering through a 12-mile run.And it felt damn good...

healthy appetite

As I sit here chewing freshly-microwaved leftover brown rice and Polish sausage because there is nothing else in the house to eat...

rain or shine

Wondering if a PR is even possible at the upcoming Kaiser Half. Training started off as planned, but then my left knee began to hurt...

mountain lion

I know, I know – I'm overdue for the restaurant post.But we encountered a vicious mountain lion Saturday when we were hiking the...

I've bean cooking

Bad pun intended.Given that it's already mid-January, I should probably write my annual post of 10 restaurants I'd like to go to...

in our genes

Home at last, though exhausted and sick. But so thankful to finally be home.The weekend was long and intense: Three days straight...

what we couldn't say

A little tough to try to write after the last post.I would be lying if I said we were close. We rarely spoke the same language. In...

memorial

Cheers to my grandmother: The woman who eloped, who owned a Casio keyboard with follow-along light-up keys so you too could play...

at their mercy

This pretty much happens to me every morning. For some reason, our cats always pick on me and leave Todd alone. I think they know...

a running start

It's only Day 2 of 2010, but so far, so good. We spent yesterday recovering from our New Year's Eve festivities (during which I discovered...