Last summer, my 28-year-old, moving-back-to-Spokane niece Vanessa and I agreed that this year, in 2015, we’d run Bloomsday together. For many runners, this is a sort of bucket list event, primarily because it has so many participants. In fact, it’s the biggest 12K (7.5 mile) race in the country and the fourth largest timed race …
Category Archives: Reading
The Boys in the Boat Author Drops Anchor on Whidbey Island
Triskaidekaphobics might expect that this 13th year of the Sno-Isle Library-sponsored Whidbey Reads might bring bad luck for readers. They’d be wrong. Past titles have included historical fiction (West of Here, Little Century); science fiction (Bellewether); non-fiction (Crow Planet, Undaunted Courage, my favorite of the half dozen I’ve read) and fiction (most of the rest). Checking out …
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Every year, not far from here, farmers plant, tend and harvest hundreds of thousands of iris, daffodil and tulip bulbs. All the information a person needs can be found at the Tulip Festival site, including a map of the various fields indicating where the flowers can be found. Having read Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire (which …
Recent Reads – Updated October 2015
I love to read. And I l choose specific books for various reasons, the most common being: heard about it on NPR, saw it at Amazon.com, a friend highly recommended it, chosen as a book club pick, or previewing it for my teenage son or daughter. In case you are interested, this is what I’ve …
Book Snob’s Five Favorite Reads on Running
Until a few years ago, I hadn’t read many books that I’d even bother to recommend about running. That all changed when I found and fell in love with, Born to Run, which opened my eyes to a new view about running, in general, and an affinity for minimalist shoes (I drew the line at …
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