In the pursuit of any goal, we all face a moment of questioning ourselves, sometimes…
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Friday Inspiration 411
This is the last time I’ll mention this in 2023: If you’re in the holiday…
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Friday Inspiration 410
This is such a great film about a group of guys who have been playing…
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Friday Inspiration 409
Many weeks, I spend a couple hours clicking around YouTube and Vimeo looking for The…
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Race Report: Ultra-Trail Cape Town 100K
For a half-second, I thought the naked man crutching toward me on the trail was…
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Friday Inspiration 408
I don’t know how the YouTube algorithm served this up to me, but this film…
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24 Minor Air Travel Indignities I Have Survived
When I fly somewhere and I get to where I’m going, sometimes someone will…
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Friday Inspiration 407
Maybe you don’t care that much about baseball, but what about the evolution of urban…
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Friday Inspiration 406
What I love about this short film: It’s not complicated or flashy, and its subject,…
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Friday Inspiration 405
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I am doing my Grand Canyon Groovers Calendar again this year, as well…
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Across The Grand Canyon Twice, In 11 Photos
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Friday Inspiration 404
I’m also familiar with this mega-classic way of ending a story, but what the filmmaker…
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Friday Inspiration 403
So this week, I am at the Grand Canyon with my family, and with any…
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16 Writers on How Running Helps Them Write
In his book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, legendary Japanese…
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Friday Inspiration 402
My thoughts while watching this video (cleverly titled “This Man Drives A Burger To Work”)…
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Friday Inspiration 401
I hesitate to recommend music to people because music tastes are so individual, but I…
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I Just Want Strava To Tell Me I’m Not Slowly Dying
You may know Strava as a fitness tracking app. Maybe you use it to keep…
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Friday Inspiration 400
When I was in high school, my friend Dan stood in front of his freshman…
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Friday Inspiration 399
This short film is barely a minute long, and I think that’s the perfect length…
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Letter Of Recommendation: Having A Favorite Tree
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Friday Inspiration 398
“People who are not handy but wish they were handy sometimes ask me how to…
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Friday Inspiration 397
We watched Season 2 of The Bear a little late, so we were saying “Whoa,…
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How To Run Uphill
— More stories and illustrations about running in my book, Have Fun Out There Or…
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Friday Inspiration 396
Do you remember Clippy from Microsoft Office? Maybe not fondly. What I never thought of,…
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Friday Inspiration 395
If you ever click away from a YouTube video and think, “I’ll just listen to…
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Friday Inspiration 394
I watched this whole video without stopping, near the end asking myself, “Is this too…
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8 Ways Running Is Like The Creative Process
I was talking with another writer (who is also a runner) the other day, and…
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