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Recent posts
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Notes from Transit
Did you know that Madrid is a desert-city? It is landlocked atop a plateau (this makes me nervous, like being in a crowded concert hall without an emergency exit). Inside the airport, it swelters. The city is profoundly European, and so it is sparse with air conditioning. I run my carry-on through the security belt.…
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Living Directive
I recently drafted a will, and a living directive. For all the other childless 32-year-olds out there, please do not judge. (I promise I can be fun.) I’m aware it is peculiar to be the type of person who even cares to get this done — a will, I mean. Statistically there should be no…
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Villano Perfecto
It’s one of the difficult realizations of adult life, that the good comes mixed in with the bad, the bad with a facet of good (No hay villano perfecto). You learn it quickly as an expat. Living “abroad” is a life situation that enhances pleasure and displeasure, the way that heat intensifies smells. These heightened…
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More On The Defiant Body
At the risk of turning this into an existential running blog (and I imagine there is very limited if any readership for this type of thing), I have here a Part 2 to the blog post I published earlier this month, “On The Defiant Body.” I promise an imminent return to non-athletic, less existential subjects…
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On The Defiant Body
On August 5th, 1984, Los Angeles hosted the first Olympic marathon in which women were allowed to compete, exactly one year and six days before I was born. Fifty runners competed that Sunday and 44 finished the race. I am most interested in runner number 323. Gabriela Andersen-Schiess competed for team Switzerland in that inaugural…
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