They call it the Boston Marathon, because to name it what it really is would be impossible to put on a t-shirt.

...we are the fire marks.

For a moment I felt like I’d stumbled into a Monty Python movie.

March 24, 2025   Greetings from the seelie,   I think most of my life I have taken a somewhat skeptical stance on the mystical and...

Sometimes it felt like I was just following my sons on their outing, just happy to have been invited.

This rule was: you don’t get down from the table until you finish your meal.

For me, running is not an event or a medal or a time, it is a way of living.

"...we must treasure each moment, not measure it."

None of us is promised any number of days, even without tempting fate by scrambling up concrete towers, and so every sunrise is a miracle.

They are giving them hope in their homework.

As everyone knows, a phrase I like to say to avoid arguments, pillows are where dreams come from.

“When I grow up will you still read books to me?”

"...we do not take a trip; the trip takes us."

When I was a little boy, an era that lasted far longer than the years normally allotted, my Christmas list for Santa was fairly simple; 

Never underestimate the day.

December 9, 2024   Greetings from the living testament,   Memories are held like water cupped in your hands, trembling, leaking, changed...

November 11, 2024   Greetings from the next step,   Almost every ache has an accompanying joy.   I am of an age where I am not totally...

They were two-thousand-year-old political yard signs.

October 21, 2024   Greetings from the brick and mortar,   It was a crowded shop, filled with intriguing things, some cluttered into...

“Solvitur ambulando”. It is a Latin phrase which means "It is solved by walking."