Archive For January 20, 2019
Just in case you don’t know: she was the first American woman to run a marathon in less than two and a half hours, when she finished second to Grete Waitz, with a time of 2:29:33, in the 1980 New York City Marathon. Okay, Jack, here you go. Pleased as peaches I made the cut….
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.“ “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor,” I…
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You honor yourself. You should think of others first. Hell is on the way.
I know some shit ’cause I’ve seen some shit. – Professor Nathaniel Burke of the University of Farmers This was supposed to be the fifteenth-hundred (1500) piece at jackdogwelch.com. Didn’t write all of them, but most. A few were pretty okay. (Number 1500 with Don Kardong is a fun read.) I am down to the…
Timothy M. Tays, PhD The Chameleon Complex—Chapter 28 If you really knew me, you wouldn’t like me; that was my secret. But there was also something inside me—something as small and hard as a Roswell walnut—that wanted to rise up and be better than I felt. I reckoned that I needed to perform better to…
You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot. – Don Kardong OK, I think I have some time today to give this a shot. Toughest opponent and why? Obviously, it was Pre. I think I figured out at one point that I was 0 and 9 against him. Compare that to my 3 and 1…
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. – Francis of Assisi I got invited to visit a friend. You can stay with me, he said. Then he told me he had sold his house. I guess…
The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life! – Mehmet Murat ildan A MEDITATION ON SUCCESS He figured he was maybe…
I ran my first road race in Greenwich, Connecticut. New England was a hotbed of roadracing in the early 1970s. Even big races were small by today’s standard. Guys like me could still get into the school gym in Hopkinton. We all grew bigger and went faster. Few bigger and faster than Boston Billy. I have…
I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don’t actually ever lie. ― Lucia Berlin, Lucia Brown Berlin (November 12, 1936 – November 12, 2004)[1] was an American short story writer.[2] She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame eleven years…