navigationWe’ve been driving Suburus for the past 10 years and not knowing that
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?
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
Books enjoyed in January. Five favorites with astericks.
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson*
Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson*
P.G. Wodehouse In His Own Words by P.G. Wodehouse
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
Socrates: A Man For Our Times by Paul Johnson*
Thank You For Your Servitude by Mark Leibovich
No Plan B by Lee Child
Smart Brevity by Jim Vandelhei
Don’t Pee On My Leg… by Judy Sheindlin
The House of Sky by Ivan Doig
Will’s Boy by Wright Morris
Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
The Mosquito Bowl by Buzz Bissinger
Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton*
Created Equal by Ben Carson
Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens
Hold The Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for the American Soul by Michael Fanone*
The Pacific and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
On Friday I had a lumbar microdiscectomy at L4-5, a one hour surgery. A day surgery, they called it, the entire ordeal was 4 hours. Now mostly pain free. Yesterday I walked 1200 steps.
Hope to race a 5K on July 4th
More noteworthy, eight Washington Huskies ran a sub four mile in the same race. Watch
Compelling interview with D.C. cop on his near-death experience in the storm on the Capital. …Here
His book, Hold The Line, tells the whole story. Highly recommended. Being a cop is a tough life. I had a good friend, a deputy with the Los Angeles Sheriffs. Sadly, he drank himself to death.
Also read and recommend Lauren Fleshman’s Good For A Girl. …I knew two of her coaches, Dave DeLong and Mark Rowland, her third coach, Vin Lananna, only slightly.