I listened to my new running playlist this morning on the way in to work, and realized another thing about it (and playlists like it in the past).
I start my runs (in general) with the dark, the sarcastic, the angry.  The first three songs on this new playlist are each, in their own way, a solitary middle [...]

I had to take a hiatus from running when I was dealing with the respiratory ick (and then a bout of flu - or something like it - does one really care what it’s called when one feels as if they were run over by a truck?  No, I thought not).  To celebrate my return [...]

I have been accused of being difficult.
Control your shock, please.  I’m speaking of something specific.  Both my husband and mother have told me that purchasing gifts for me is fraught, since I tend to buy the things I want for myself, with some alacrity.
So it was with great forbearance that I put James Taylor’s “One [...]

My friend Chris and I have an ongoing conversation about music - we introduce one another to new music and discuss the merits of various artists and albums.  We trade off buying concert tickets for mutually beloved artists as well as introductions to new ones.  John and I brought him to see Jonatha Brooke, he [...]

Hi. I’m back. I was away for about a week (last post was dateline: San Francisco, even though I didn’t mention that).
In my travels, I seem to have picked up a very small gremlin who is industriously smashing my sinuses with a brick.  Also, I got home last night - no, this morning [...]

Recently, I introduced Brenda Dayne to the musical stylings of my cousin Britt Sawdon.  As I suspected would happen, Brenda found Britt’s work to be her kind of thing and Britt’s permission was secured to play a couple of her songs on Cast-On.
I had been mulling over a third submission to the podcast, but hadn’t [...]

James Taylor singing the National Anthem at Fenway.  Ah, the World Series in Boston.

I need to get beyond week 5/6 of the couch to 5k plan, but I’m so proud of myself for running 20 minutes nonstop, I am in a bit of a rut.  Having reached the five minute walk warmup, 20 minute run, five minute walk cooldown stage, which honestly doesn’t need much in the way [...]

John and I don’t get out terribly often. We’re homebodies by nature, with many domestic pursuits and interests. As a result, we end up not taking as much advantage of the many things the DC area has to offer as we think we “should.” (The shoulds and oughts of this type of thinking are particularly [...]