Ultra-midlife crisis redux, the next 50-miler, and again, ‘why run?’
I put off signing up for the next race for a long time, until I was deep into what should have been the training cycle, especially if the next race was going to be a fifty miler. I held onto a baseline...
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Heading north to Concord today, all the electronic traffic signs on I93 were warning: FREE LAW JULY 1 BE PREPARED HANDS For a moment this discordian-sounding message got me pondering, perhaps as a...
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On Writing, Running, Shame and Authenticity
I didn’t run the 50 miler I’d signed up for in May. Life got complicated, and I re-prioritized all kinds of stuff. Running too. But in deciding not to run the race, not to keep training for the race,...
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Setting Out For The Beach
Ready for this year’s Reach the Beach! Team ultra midlife crisis hits the road at 3 pm. Very much looking forward to running all night; the mad delirium, the camaraderie, the physical intensity and...
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How to add 128GB of storage to your MacBook Pro for sixty bucks
When I took advantage of a great deal on a MacBook Pro 13-inch Retina early 2015, the 128GB storage limit didn’t seem like a big deal. Until only a few months later, between syncing Google Drive,...
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Unmooring, Realignment and Restoration: Notes From The Apartment
I am living in a third-floor walkup on the west side of Manchester. It’s small, but it’s got three bedrooms and the kids stay with me about three nights a week. The boys share one of the extra...
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Old Man Getting Inked
If you have not picked up your June 2016 copy of New Hampshire Magazine yet, I urge you to do so. Beyond all the other great stuff in there, I’ve got a piece on getting a tattoo. That’s right....
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Why The Crucifix?
Altichiero da ZevioCrucifixion1376-79 Fresco, 840 x 280 cmBasilica di Sant’Antonio, Padua http://www.wga.hu One startlingly visible aspect of the Catholic faith that engenders consternation, and even...
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Ancient Traditions And Contemporary Problems: Recalibrating
Vanitas Still Life, Herman Henstenburgh (Dutch, 1667–1726) My visual voicemail on my iPhone had only been working sporadically for a few months. It was a small inconvenience but one that accrued over...
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A Case For Using Your Smartphone During Restaurant Dinners (And Other Social...
For years I’ve been firmly in the camp of those who argue, to the degree technology distracts us from being “present” to those we are with, it’s a bad thing. I disagree, however, the inevitable result...
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A New Library of Babel: Borges, Fake News and Philosophy for All
Arguably, all we experience of life is data. Information received through various sensors, processed first by functions within the sensors themselves, then interpreted by the mind receiving those...
View ArticleResistance To Writing: A Ghost Story
A great, tender melancholy settled over me this morning as I drove the kids to school through the snow covered millyard. The lights on the brick buildings twinkled against the gray December sky and...
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