Archive For November 8, 2020
If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation, ‘cause, what’s not to like?… [Joe’s] as good a man as God ever created. – Senator Lindsey Graham Hello. My fellow Americans and the people who brought me to the dance, Delawareans. I see my buddy…
My first issue as Road Editor for Track & Field News was November 1979. It was a most excellent time and place for a writer who lived and breathed the sport. That garlicky smell was probably DMSO. August 25th, Herb Lindsay won the Bobby Crim Ten-Miler in 48:00, beating England’s Steve Kenyon by fifteen seconds….
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. – Henry David Thoreau I was thinking a resignation with blanket pardons for him and his family. Everybody but Barron. That young man is likely the only one who can carry his own weight. And I was thinking I…
Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, No matter how difficult, No matter how unfair, You will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it. – Joel Osteen Awaiting the latest results with the dog at my feet and the ghost of John Lewis next to me, news like…
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. – Bikram Choudhury The civil conflict cum kleptocratic coup continues. He thought. The war goes on. His neighbor said. It’s a win for big business, the landlord lobby and the police union. It’s unfortunate that voters couldn’t see…
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat. – Adolf Hitler I can’t go on. I’ll go on. Samuel Beckett
May your troubles be less, May your blessings be more. May nothing but happiness come through your door.And if it does, make sure it’s wearing a mask!
It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. – Elizabeth Lesser Ode to an Aging Runner By Paul C. Maurer The couple was old. Fifty? Sixty? Beyond? Good Lord, I thought, give it up. And yet they didn’t. They would continue, trotting down the road. “Trotting” might be…