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I ate whatever I wanted after the race. This included coconut milk ice cream and sweet potato fries. Today, I made a batch of gluten-free chocolate chip cookies. While I’m not one for [...]

Bright and early in below freezing temps, we gathered for announcements before the race! After 6 months of training via Matt Fitzgerald’s 80/20 Running principles, I’m happy to [...]

{source} I’m delighted to announce that I have new flash fiction published in Litro Magazine New York. The story, “Immortality,” chronicles a broken-hearted [...]

Hard work, all spread out. Notice the yellow cards. Those are my “what if’s.” On a whim, Brad suggested I join him for his clinicals on Thursday and Friday of this week. Between [...]

{source} On Sunday morning, I ran the farthest I have ever run in my life: 14 miles. The last mile and a half were run at a slightly faster pace, as part of my training, and the thought that [...]

Copper Creek glimpsed from on high; I run down along the water’s edge. Early evening, I move through sunshine and snowmelt, the world a cacophony of colors after weeks of white, white, [...]

Changing patches, changing dojos; bittersweet and thrilling all at once! Re-entry into the dojo lifestyle feels like a slow and steady form of pummeling, interrupted by small victories of insight [...]

A world-class dojo, here? You’d better believe it. Where do I begin? Honestly, my obsession with martial arts training took over The Writing Life blog for nearly three years. Other than [...]

Sometimes when you travel, there is only this: The smell of the man from Zimbabwe’s cologne–like a nightclub, only it’s 5am and you haven’t had coffee or breakfast yet and [...]

This Saturday evening, I’ll be giving a new craft lecture, “Narrative Genesis and Imagination” at Interlochen Center for the Arts at 5pm in The Writing House. A handful of The [...]