crisis communications

If you work in PR, you know Those Days. When the phone calls and the e-mails keep coming and you fill up sheet after sheet of yellow...

dinner tonight

Veggie tacos from the Taqueria Santa Cruz....

trail season ends

So I accomplished my Annadel goals. I am not in a hospital bed right now, and I traded my XL race shirt for the correct size. Winning! Also...

happy trails

Or so I hope. My primary goal for Annadel tomorrow is simple yet extremely important: Do not get airlifted out of the park. That's...

mochi

I continue to cook from the Alicia Silverstone book. Tonight's recipe: Savory pan-fried mochi topped with grated daikon and wrapped...

I'm pretty much a sucker

I really didn't want to sign up for Annadel, but three of my friends registered and then talked me into it. And now two of those...

soy milk ramen

I came home tonight to the most wonderful scent: Todd was eating his leftovers from Shoki. If only I had leftovers too. But I inhaled...

american river 50

Yesterday was one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences that a runner never forgets: I paced Derrick through the last nine miles...

I ken ken have ramen

I had to pour at a wine event in San Francisco tonight. So Todd came with me, and we enjoyed the tasting together. I worked the...

the downside of organic

There was a slug in my salad tonight. I keep thinking about it. And then I actually physically get the chills. It was writhing...

scattered thoughts

You know those moments when you are trailing so far behind in your track workout that it almost looks like you are leading the pack? That...

hippie pizza

... looks like this. And instead of being decadently debaucherous, like the kind I had at Rosso on Saturday, it's vegan, gluten-free...

loop de loopy

I kind of feel like I've been steam-rolled. The Loop de Loop was brutal. Tag pick-up was chaotic. There weren't enough parking spaces...

to hell with it

Took this photo on my walk to the yoga studio this morning. That's right -- today marked my first downward dog since December or...

post-race reward

My apologies for not mentioning this earlier: I had ramen in L.A. last weekend. After the adventure that was the the Great Race,...