Christmas Hooky . . . Time Out!

What a good thing I had committed myself tofinding Christmas in the moment, yesterday morning. As it turned out, not only our 8:30 ferry, but then also the 10:30 and the 12:30 were cancelled, due…

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Pathos, C’est Moi!

In a completely gratuitous demonstration of the pathetic fallacy, the weather appears to be mirroring my response to a weekend of marking papers. Gloomy! Heck, I’m even close to assuming that these ships sulk on…

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(Oyster)-Catching Happiness

 I was thrilled to catch a flash of yellow (legs), then red (long bill) on the beach the other day, and then count 1, 2, 3, and 4 oystercatchers on the beach. Even more thrilled…

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Weekend Running and Eating . . .

Outside, it’s dark and stormy, and those clouds had their contents shaken loose by a ravaging wind, so that I was pelted with rain all through my Long Slow Distance Run this morning.  My target…

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What a Hoot! Running and Music and Owls . . .

Photo taken fromthis Wikipedia page Last week I was blessed by not just one, but two, encounters with barred owls. The first happened on a dark, rainy Wednesday morning after I had coaxed myself to…

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