There she goes, my beautiful world
I challenge anyone to provide a reputable source for this supposed quote attributed to GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum:
Abortion in any form is wrong, except for my wife. If your wife’s life was at stake and the only thing that could save her was an abortion, well, too bad. Your wife will have to die. It was different with my wife. You see, I love her. I don’t even know your wife’s name.
I call bullshit on this whole … Read the rest
2011 has so far been an almost completely unproductive year. That’s a terrifying thing to admit about the last five months of my life. I haven’t been on sabbatical or family leave or vacation; instead I’ve been sitting at my desk in front of my computer accomplishing nothing. I’ve been accomplishing nothing and wondering why.
I’ve tried a myriad of solutions to address and correct this situation: sporadic attempts at physical exercise, hypnosis, binaural beats, reading motivational articles, prayer, mediation, journaling, … Read the rest
I have a little bit of experience with running with legs that haven’t run in a month. It’s almost all I’ve done in the last ten months. One of the patterns I’ve seen is that after getting psyched up to start running again I’ve come back from that first run and had severely sore calves the next day. My calves have been so sore and tight actually that I’ve had difficulty walking two days after the run. I’ve considered trying … Read the rest
There is some disagreement among runners whether it is good to have music on headphones while running. The purists say that it takes away from the total experience, everyone else just likes their music. I generally fall into the latter category, but I run both with and without music. As a rule, I never run a race with headphones. Many races have course regulations prohibiting the use of headphones, though those rules are routinely ignored. Even if there were no … Read the rest
I can’t say with any certainty that it was low tide when I ran past, but it sure smelled like low tide.
It’s a gorgeous day here in San Francisco. A bit on the breezy side but that’s not a problem. Even at my loping pace the body generates enough heat that cooling air is refreshing, as a rule.
Today’s run alternated between the feeling that I could keep going all day and the feeling that I had to stop right away. … Read the rest
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. I’ve moved out of my studio at the Third Street Art Explosion and I have been rearranging my cottage to dedicate the downstairs to my new studio. In addition to moving everything from the studio here, I’ve had to move pretty much every piece of furniture I own either from downstairs to upstairs or from upstairs to down. Let me tell you: moving furniture by myself ain’t easy.
It’s not easy but it’s gone … Read the rest
Possibly the biggest disappointment in my review of notebooks over the last couple years has been the Piccadilly Essential Notebook. Piccadilly’s Essential line of notebooks is almost indistinguishable from the Moleskine, but at a third to one-half the price. When I say indistinguishable, I mean in nearly every detail. The oilskin cover looks like the Moleskine, the paper is the same cream color with the same 6mm ruling, there’s an elastic enclosure and a pocket in the back. … Read the rest
I was excited to see Gallery Leather’s entry into the journal/notebook realm for a couple reasons. First, it’s a handsome notebook of a reasonable size for carrying, and second, Gallery Leather does a lot of business creating and customizing handcrafted products directly from Maine. In other words, I was hoping to find some good old fashioned American craftsmanship.
The notebook’s cover is indeed well-crafted and the paper is of excellent quality (more on this in a moment) but the … Read the rest
First my apologies for a late post. It’s already Monday on the East Coast and it wouldn’t take much more delay for this to become The Monday Papers even here in California.
This week’s notebook is the Canteo, from Swiss maker Biella. The Swiss have spared no expense in putting together an elegant and full-featured notebook, and for those who keep their notebooks at their desks the Canteo may be ideal. If you want a notebook that is portable and … Read the rest
Of all the notebooks on the market, none is so celebrated or debated as the Moleskine. Loved by many, there are at least a half dozen websites devoted solely to the iconic notebook, and a Google search on the keyword «moleskine» produces (at this writing) over four and a half million results. No other brand of notebook has achieved the same level of repute or notoriety.
I’m not here to say that Moleskines are the best notebooks, but they are … Read the rest