This post about “Life Unbolted,” Patrick Detscher’s new book, can’t really be called a review……more of a “riff.” How do you objectively discuss your good friend’s “baby,” one you knew before a single word hit the page? You don’t, but you do share its arrival with your friends, joyfully. Among people to whom this book will appeal: Those Who Are Interested […]
Getting Lost With Dustin
I seem to get lost every time I leave the Earl May Boat Basin in Bainbridge, GA. I have participated in the Kiwanis River Run there quite a few Januarys, and have gotten lost on the way out almost every time. The year that Paula O’Neill, Arlene Feril, and I rode together (2012) was no […]
Apply Another Coat or Raze The Building?
My grandfather owned a bar in small town Bible Belt North Florida. It is the only vocation of his that I ever knew (earlier in his life he had owned a filling station). The bar had a front section and a back section. Until he died in 1982, black customers did their business in the […]
Conquering Things
It has been a weekend for conquering things (and celebrating the conquering of things): As my trip to Savannah approached, I was searching for a running route. Madeline of Food, Fitness, and Family, who I first met as an “Elf For Health” partner, lives in the vicinity but suggested that Victoria of Victoria Runs would […]
I Won’t Give Up (On Finding the Perfect Playlist)
I have been meaning to write about my running playlist for a while. I finally found the impetus to do it when Bob Gabordi, Executive Editor of our Tallahassee Democrat, runner, and Move Tallahassee enthusiast, blogged about his list and asked, “So what’s on your playlist to keep you moving?” My list is not static. […]
Could a Mentor Have Changed Things?
One of the Mama Kat prompts this week is: Tell us about a job you quit…why did you do it? I drive past the office that housed the position I “quit” several times a week. It is right across from my daughter’s high school; it’s on one of Tallahassee’s main thoroughfares, and it is less […]