Author Archive

Saturday

The Fast and the Forest

How many Americans have gone sub four? Review

100 American women have gone sub 4:30.

Your $57 contribution will put another filbert tree in the ground. Over 4000 new trees will complete the project.

More

99% of the U.S. hazelnut/filbert crop is produced in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The Oregon crop represents between 3.5% of the world hazelnut crop.

We have some historic , untended, still producing filbert trees in our yard.

Wednesday

Must view: This is TrackTown: Bowerman’s Jogging Class

Monday

The Great Feminization of the American University

Book Lover

Books enjoyed in February. Five favorites with astericks.

A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson*
Mencken: The American Iconoclast by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
My Life As Author And Editor by H.L. Mencken*
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens*
Good For A Girl by Lauren Fleshman
Ellis Island & Other Stories by Mark Helprin
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin*
Children & Other Wild Animals by Brian Doyle
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B.Nuland*
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
Stoner by John Williams

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

– Desiderius Erasmas

Monday

16 year old runs a 3:55.14 mile. Read

Watch. You might want to advance to last lap. He’s got a helluva kick.

Sunday

We’ve been driving Suburus for the past 10 years and not knowing that

Saturday

The West Lives On in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

Breaking News

Is your city in the top 25 of the most rat-infested in the United States? Consider

Los Angeles is #2! I was born and raised there for the first 15 years of my life. Worked there from 1974 to 2011. It’s difficult to imagine it worse than New York City where I lived and worked from 1971 to 1973.

Possibly drugs and crappy government to blame?

Saturday

Hilarious. Bill Maher on the woke revolution

Friday

Our Q&A with Marc Bloom now available in the February Oregon Track Club Newsletter

Colorado Alums Rally to Defense of Mark Wetmore and Heather Burroughs