The January gym reeks of resolution and self-loathing. New faces in new clothes staining in the sweat of want and willpower and...

and a quest for large mimosas The 10am 5K start felt far from resolutory. Dawn would have impressed. Shivering in the New Year’s frost at...

Thoughts of family, belonging, and boundary The rain falls easy thick on the last day of December. I am warmed with coffee and the...

It is the solstice and Winter enters with expected calm. And my neck is sometimes stiff from tilting my face towards the southern sun. In...

Life and Death on Interstate 64 Fifty-six hundred pounds of Escalade hard laid its side. A brilliant red of rescue lights reflects...

and other fallen leaves strewn Like my thoughts, my kitchen counter, my poetry felt scattered, windblown against fence bottoms. They...

Now available on Amazon Books My first book is about running. Running from not being able to run to running a marathon. I didn't write it...

Drenched in good vibrations The resonance peaked within my teeth, then expanded through my gums and in another moment my entire jawline...

A daily haiku practice through the month of October. The date being the prompt word for each day's entry. cedarwood incense first eve...

A costumed race unmasked It's one of those crazy costume races held near Halloween. I'm dressed as a vintage pilot, sans leather jacket,...

My blood boiled cold when I read the emails. I don’t remember a specific time when nor a place where I first heard the Virginia Beach...

I wrote a book. Then I self-published the book. These are two very different things, with few crossover skills. The process took much...

An eighteen-wheeler introduced me to real pain. After suffering a major trauma in a collision with a vehicle ten times bigger than my...

No masks. That's the revelation today. And it feels weird. It feels amazing, but weird. I thought I'd have a crest the top roller coaster...

It overwhelmed me for a moment while standing in the middle of the Virginia Beach Convention Center. That subtle mix of anxiety and...

It was the simplest expression of how the meaning of running changes and evolves through your life I had ever heard. And it brought one...

I had never run a step beyond 20 miles. That was my limit. That was the longest of my long runs. Like many first-time marathoners, I had...

I knew my life had changed when the young man in the turkey suit onesie whooshed past. I was excited to be running in my very first road...

It is a place of age. A place of time. And of a kind of timelessness. We approached the Thoroughgood House, my wife and I, with a quiet...

Yoga changed my life ten years ago. The transformation, of course, didn’t occur in the first class. The process of personal metamorphosis...