Three Thursdays in July Jay Wallace, Driving home from work recently, I got behind a car with a bumper sticker that stated “The Best Things in Life Aren’t Things.” It was a slight modification of another familiar saying, another pithy bumper sticker....
A View from the TopAltitude Attitude Gordon Cherr, Visiting in Colorado, from sea level in Florida. Then we will be driving to New Mexico and back to Colorado. I go out for a run from where we are staying, just outside of Boulder. Hey, why don’t my...
The Tiny Madness of Forgetting – Part 1 Mike Baker, I would rather run more than run fast. It took me six months to own this fact. It took watching my running partners drop away because they could not bear to slow down, could not stand the sight of...
The Tiny Madness of Forgetting – Part 2 Mike Baker, I hate to get philosophical at a moment like this but when I run I am running away from Death. I believe this is true of everyone who runs whether they know it or not. Like the Yaqui Indians say,...
The Tiny Madness of Forgetting – Part 3 Mike Baker, I remember seeing a sign at the trailhead of a canyon trail in Texas, Please pack in water as this trail has no exit except this one. Please hike responsibly. I often consider that sign around the...
