The January Gym is an overcrowded asses to elbows hell rush to wellness. A once-a-year event. It will swell with flesh again shortly ahead of summer, but this month, this now, this new year beginning is stand alone.   Everything reeks of resolution and self-loathing. New faces in new clothes staining in the sweat of want and willpower and wonderings of reshaping shapes mocking in mirrors since the holiday binge.   The November gym was busy, though swathes of open space brough

Folding new socks and thinking of the months I lived in my car. The cold of a new winter beginning. The thrift shop blanket I switched the tag on to save a fiver. Enough for food from a sunset to the next. Some days all at once. Others with nibbles through the hours.   My drawer is full. Full of new socks. I am unable to imagine a simpler symbol of my riches. And the drawer pulls adjacent to another. And there are four more drawers overflowing with abundance. The ease of my m

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The fence shadows crept like ghosts back to graves and then it was the middle of the night. And then it was the middle of the month. I...

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...

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

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...

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

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...