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...

Global Running Day felt like a neighborhood run and I'm glad. My wife and I joined a hundred or so runners for a rainy jaunt along our...

A tractor trailer changed everything. A split second in time when the truck’s wheels grazed the center line at the same moment my small...

As the COVID-19 Crisis spread across the US, it left both runners and running race organizers scrambling to unriddle the mystery of how...