Ellen’s Run 5k

Candy Cane City, Chevy Chase, MD

The race day forecast was for a 30 degree temperature drop and hard rain, and my mom and I agreed that we’d play it by ear at Ellen’s Run this year — as much as we love the race and its cause there […]

When we ran the donut run around this time last year, some of you recall the piggy paraphernalia I brought back from Minnesota — I hope Neal is still enjoying his boar juice bucket.  I was reminded of wussies again during last week’s pig visit to USDA in Iowa.  Des Moines had the best airport […]

Rt 48 through West Virginia

September 30, 2011

I snapped a few photos of a full arc double rainbow we saw driving back to DC from Canaan Valley.  Absolutely the most stunningly clear rainbow I’ve ever seen.  I wish I had better photos than these I took with Aaron’s iPhone camera while driving in […]

Nat’s game

September 22, 2012

Washington, DC

‘Aaron, look!!’  I waved the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine in front of him, opened to the cartoon above.  ‘This!  This is my childhood!’  Aaron, who had spent a good hour of our last Friday evening listening to my father’s heated explanation of why Nats catcher […]

Brain Aneurysm Race for Awareness 8k

In Memory of Timothy P. Susco

Reston, Virginia

September 22, 2010

Results

With 9 minutes until gun time, I whispered in Aaron’s ear, ‘Do you think I can go pee in those bushes over there?’  After two straight weeks of trail racing, where the world is my […]