Bob shares expertise on the developmental biology of adolescent females

‘You know….ah…the bodies of teenage girls change a lot during development.’  Aaron ducked as my father swung his glass of bourbon as he spoke, the liquid sloshing against the side.  Sauvignon blanc spurted through my nose.

Our dinner guest, Kim, was my mother’s younger sister’s […]

I keep a life list of regrets.  Certain events that I wish, with all my heart, that I could undo.  One regret is Phoebe.  Phoebe was a Rhodesian Ridgeback.  We got her as a puppy when I was in eighth grade, a couple years after our dog Sam died of cancer.  My mom’s sister Winnie sent us Phoebe […]

Fifth grade.

I was in elementary school when our gym teacher Mr Palmer made us run a timed mile around the gym.  The gym was barely the size of a tennis court, so we had to run 26 laps around a rectangle defined by four orange cones.  We split into teams of two: one person ran […]

Marmots will try anything once.  So when I was invited to be on the cover of Women’s Running Magazine March 2017 issue as last year’s DC Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon champ, I said sure.  They’d put me up for a night in Brooklyn, give me heaps of free running clothes, and an opportunity to divulge what I […]

Title: FARTing in Moab

Key words: Wussies, Arches National Park, Buster, Service Animals, Cryptomatic Soils, Scrabble, Copper Mountain

Tags: #BetterThanLeesburg #ScenicPoops

Summary: 10+ Wussies converged in Moab, UT to run the Red Hot Moab 50k/30k.  Winners all around, as (a) Daniel bested this month’s Trail Runner coverboy Joe Grant to […]