Running is Resilience

I wrote this Saturday night – couldn’t sleep. Sharing it now after a coffee-assisted edit. It’s been a while, but it’s a near-full moon right now, and I can’t sleep, and I’ve got both running and writing on the brain, so I figured I’d dust off the old blog and share what’s on my mind.…

Blog share: “Most Everything I Know about Portland, I Learned from the Homes my Father Renovated”

Thanks all for the love and responses to that last post! I’m not happy that so many of us are feeling on edge, but it’s nice to hear that other people are having the same thoughts and that we can at least commiserate collectively. I wanted to share here a blog post I recently wrote…

Running outdoors, Coronavirus, and online tutoring

How’s everyone doing? What bizarre times we’re in. I’m teaching from home, which has been an adventure in its own right, but I’m super grateful to still be able to work, and the kiddos I tutor are being great sports. I’ve also found I’m encouraged by and dependent on the connection with them more than…

Coming Back From Injury

Though I started this blog as a way to track very specific long-distance runs and share back all that I was seeing, I’ve long wanted to extend the posts into general discussions on running, the body, and life bits. I always put it off because it seems like there’s not really that much to talk…

I hope all roads lead to Bariloche

I’m leaving Argentina tomorrow, and I wanted to get down a quick post before life rushes in and I’m already home and on to the next thing. I plan to share more from the past few week’s adventures, but here’s what’s on my mind tonight, unfiltered, with some not-quite-related but still beautiful photos: When I…

In love with Villa Los Coihues and the neighbors who share it

Will is leaving next week, and although I’ll be staying on three more weeks, I’ve already started to think about the things I’m going to miss. Out of all of them, I’m going to miss our neighborhood the most. Our hood, Los Coihues, is a neighborhood of dirt roads, wandering dogs, and a neighborly code…

The Woods in Fall

The days have been inching by here in Bariloche, with the weather turning rainy and cold and fierce for a few weeks, and now, it seems, a little bit of second summer. Just this week I completed my first full week back in my sneakers! The walking boot is pushed to the back of the…

Observe Everything

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we use art to create the world we want to live in. For instance, I would love to see a movie where, instead of a man teaching a woman how to ice skate / shoot hoops / drive / swing a golf club (just the worst) / anything…

Dreamy Los Coihues

I thought that after the last post I would fill in some information. My sweetheart Will and I are currently staying in a neighborhood called Los Coihues, outside of Bariloche, Argentina. Bariloche is a large city and a big outdoor tourism destination, nationally and internationally. When I was in Buenos Aires last year, we visited…

Adventure in Bariloche

For the past four months, I have been more or less housebound because of a broken foot I got while running on Mackworth Island. Four months is an eternity to be without a thing that makes you you – it is, in this case, difficult to not be able to run, but I find that…