A day in the mountains, high mountain lake, became hordes of tourists carrying McDonald's bags in their fists. "Moss-rock," one of them said. "Costs 165, 200 a ton. People love it. But it's such a pain to remove." "What are you saying?" "Just that there's a ton of it here. And it could make you rich. This whole mountain's moss-rock." Or, in the ( Read more... )

It began in the hospital ( Read more... )

Today he began moving his stuff out ( Read more... )

Working like the devil. Collecting numbers and applying them ( Read more... )

Just ran up a mountain in the mud, slipping in snowbanks, moving slowly but steadily. Discipline is back in my body. Warm spring winds pushed through dark pines. The sound of water melting, slipping, collecting was everywhere ( Read more... )

Well, the good news is that I don't have to be mad at Erik yet for giving me some big honkin' nasty STI ( Read more... )

Today the air was like silk: those rare, wonderful Front Range March "summer" days ( Read more... )

Two days of hour-long runs, uphill, after four days straight of patient, stop & start runs ( Read more... )

+ Today at work, Danielle and I were talking about how you should google people before you hire them. So we googled ourselves--something I used to do all the time, but haven't done in a long time. What did I find? A stranger's personal blog, responding to the quote of mine that Terry Tempest Williams used in her last book. I felt totally... ( Read more... )

Learning CPR is hard ( Read more... )