Don's Diary

2.2 million flooded over the southern border last year, allowed to stay, and now quite a few now dealing fentanyl. Read.

.Just missed the bus(t)) …I patronized the Subway in the photo on the same day. …10,000 fentanyl pills?

Dick Fosbury, Whose Fosbury Flop Changed High Jumping Forever, Dies at 76

Great read: The Wizard of Foz

Q&A with author Bob Welch in the January, 2020 OTC Newsletter.

Welch brought Fosbury to  Eugene for a presentation/talk/q&a. Terrific! I have the autographs of Fosbury and Welch in my copy of The Wizard of Foz.

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.

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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.

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

The Great Feminization of the American University

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

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.

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

The West Lives On in the Taliban’s Afghanistan