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Currents
Runity: Dogged
February has been a month of doggedness. Earlier in the month, I was called a “pitbull.” No offense to anyone,…
Vigil
Months after one of the last worst school shootings ever, I dropped my children off at elementary school, and found…
Runity: On Banana Peels and Fussiness
Along today’s run, I took lots of pictures for you. I wanted to rave about the surprising colors of nature…
Runity: Both/And
You can’t tell by this photo, but it’s melting here. The snow, I mean. Below my shoes is snow and…
Runity: Slow Burn, Slow Freeze
What is there to do when it’s veerrryyyy cold outside? Why, you can go running, of course. As usual, the…
Runity: Sunshine and Failure, Linked
I walked 1 1/2 miles, then ran back, for a total distance of 3 miles. Along the way, I listened to a wonderful podcast about the writing process: The Fail Safe. Host Rachel Yoder has a lovely, cinnamon-y voice—a little honey, a little bourbon, and a lot of self-deprecation— and as a result, the podcast is both cozy and bracing.
Runity: First Steps of 2018
Saturday, January 6, was my first run of 2018. By “run,” I mean “moving outdoors, forward-like, over some amount of land,” and by this metric, it was a total success.
Runity: A Journal of Running + Vanity + Accountability + Honesty
What motivates us? I ask this of my undergrad novelists-to-be, as I find ways to motivate them towards a 50,000-word…
August reading: twist your mind (& heart) with Ali Smith’s How To Be Both
In Spring, my editor at Women’s Review of Books asked me to review Ali Smith’s How to Be Both, and I…