Dear readers … let me know about your trashy neighbors
Quoting once again from an email that made the rounds this past
Where Have All the Make-Out Spots Gone?
Since leaving for college in 1999, I've come back to Gilroy on
Ottawa rallies in third period to upset San Jose, 4-2
SAN JOSE – San Jose slipped five points off the pace of second wild card Minnesota in the Western Conference Saturday night with a 4-2 setback to the visiting Ottawa Senators.
Oh, she may look cute now, but …
From time to time, I do stupid things. Oh, they don’t sound stupid before I do them—but they end up stupid. Take the last month or so, for example. We decided to paint the outside of our house, which would be awesome, except we have No-no Lulu, the dog from hell. Basically, if you don’t live with her, she will bark at you. And bark at you. And bark at you. Until you are deaf or until you leave, whichever comes first.
All-Star game’s meaning transcends baseball
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - On Tuesday night, the lights will come on at Kauffman Stadium, and America's eyes will shift toward Kansas City for baseball's 83rd All-Star Game. It will be a moment to pause and enjoy the easiness of the summer and a night that signals a milepost in many of our lives.
Local Catholic schools celebrate special week
Jan. 27 through Feb. 2 is the annual observance of Catholic
Thanks for Your Help in Making This Possible
It's hard to believe, but this month marks the end of my fourth
Boxing: Schaefer says Guerrero’s ‘focus will be on the fight’
Robert Guerrero’s fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 4 will go on as planned, even after Guerrero was arrested March 28 on gun charges at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
What Do You Think about When Running?
Recently, I started reading What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami, the Japanese novelist. The book is about how running informs Murakami's writing and how writing informs his running. If you are a runner or a writer, or both, you will enjoy the insights that he provides, which are part running thoughts, part writing thoughts, and part philosophical musings on both. But at one point near the beginning of the book, he mentions that people often ask him what he thinks about as he runs. He says, "I don't have a clue." Of course, he says, if it's cold outside, he is thinking about that, or if he's sad, he might think about sadness, or if he's happy, he might think about happiness. But, overall, he says, "I don't think much of anything worth mentioning."He just runs in a void; more precisely, he runs "to acquire a void." This sounds to me as if he uses running as a form of meditation, a moving meditation where he tries to stay in the moment and not really think at all.
