Archive For March 31, 2019
The last box of archives continues to surprise. The first Nike edition of Running magazine featured a cover story of the 1980 USA Track & Field Olympic Trials by Ken Kesey. Kesey had a bosom buddy, one Ken Babbs. Who submitted a story of his own for possible publication. Here is The Lost Report. BEAT…
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ― Frederick Douglass Sure, when you say it like that. A conspiracy theory. “Close your eyes….
If you know me at all, you know that’s true. Running saved my life. And my second wife was bipolar and threatened me with a knife. A big knife. Which seemed to match her crazy eyes. Threw her in the pool to cool her off. No cops were called. – JDW How Running Saved My…
It took me years and years to realize a very simple thing, which is that when you write fiction you’re raising questions, and a lot of people think you’re playing a little game with them and that actually you know the answers to the questions. They read your question. They don’t know how to answer…
As I write, some attorney tries to extort Nike – allegedly – for twenty million dollars plus and shoe company executives head to prison instead of March Madness. Found an article titled SPORTS SHOES OFFICIAL DOUBTS RIVAL’S TACTIC. Pacts With High School Athletes ‘Incomprehensible.” By Nick Bertram. The Oregonian. June 8, 1983. Apparently – I…
Number two pencil on a yellow legal pad. Nothing comes. Nothing. Blank sheet of empty tall as a snowy mountain. No way around it. Like a fishless sea or a walk without a dog be ever hopeful.
More tanka from my time in Flagstaff. 1973-75. Number two pencil on yellow legal pad. – JDW Climb down from the top. You must promise not to fall, not to try again, nor answer the siren call. I bow only once. Golden hair, a smile. I can still hear her laughter. Inseparable. She died just…
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles Schulz National Puppy Day [March 23] is a special day to celebrate the magic and unconditional love that puppies bring to our lives. But more importantly, it’s a day to help save orphaned puppies across the globe and educate the public about the horrors of puppy mills. National…
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. – Anne Lamott TODAY By Billy Collins If ever there were a spring day so perfect,so…
“I stayed positive through many untimely injuries, injustices, whatever. I stuck to being a good role model, trying to see what was of service to others, hoping my running, coaching and speaking would open up opportunities to impact local, national and international athletic organizations.” I can’t run. I walk as hard as I can and…