I was forever opening gates, throwing balls over the fence, answering frantically ringing doorbells, replying to pointless requests for permission…
read the full post »Way back in 2007 — after a mere nine months of warning — some doctor handed us a little bundle of blankets with a baby inside and suggested we go home and figure it out. This is me trying.
Shortly after my daughter was born, I registered for a clinic to learn how to run five kilometers. I’ve been running and writing about it ever since, but none of it is any sort of advice at all.
With over a decade of experience dribbling my thoughts onto the internets this wannabe writer, novelist & wordsmith has finally settled down and embraced the label of blogger.
featured | sport & fitness
It’s partly the time, having committed myself so thoroughly to this running thing. It’s partly the guilt of going by myself when I know Claire loves it so much.
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abstract & thinking | featured
I knock. I rattle the various knobs. I shuffle through a big key ring trying every one in futile hope.
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fatherhood | featured
I’ve been writing a lot about fatherhood in those years and it has shaped a lot of what I’ve had the opportunity to write upon.
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life happens
Every so often you get a few days like this, days when you are so busy that it all turns into a blur of lost moments.
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pop-culture | watching & listening
Is watching old goofy stuff still cool, or am I officially weird yet?
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books & reading | pop-culture
I picked up the first book more than once, never quite getting into it at first.
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featured | running
Our long slow runs have crossed into the territory of the mid-twenty kilometer distances, and we’ve been running them at a slow — an often angonizingly slow– pace.
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blogger | featured | meta & methods
Instead of a complete overhaul of my websites I’ve decided that I actually kinda like the design these days and I’ve just been, well, tweaking them.
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fatherhood | featured | sport & fitness
She was fighting for the ball. She was aggressively booting it away from the other team, intercepting and stealing the play to her advantage.
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featured | scatter | watching & listening
I’m thinking, pretending, assuming, skipping-the-caring-bit-and-just-telling-you what you want to read here is perhaps a snapshot of the many different things I’ve heard over the course of today.
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