Leafing through old (very old, these days) notebooks from college attests to the fact that I was back then (and occasionally still am) a doodler. Which does not mean I wasn’t paying attention in class. In fact, the secondary task of doodling can demand just enough cognitive function to keep the mind more attentive to [...]
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When I met Bill Rodgers at the expo the day before the Hyannis Marathon, he signed a poster for me and asked a few questions about my race plans, including, “which one are you running?” When I told him the marathon he looked at me very seriously, unsmiling, and said something along the lines of, [...]
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Kris, Isobel and I are here in Hyannis the night before the marathon. (The older kids are at their MMs for the night.) We got into town early in the afternoon and hit the race expo, where I got to meet (briefly) Bill Rodgers and Frank Shorter and grab their autographs. Bill Rodgers even took [...]
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Did my long run with a friend a few Saturday mornings ago. He’s also tapering for an upcoming marathon, and about half-way through the run, he asked, “you ever have psychological trouble with tapering?” I answered without thinking. “Last time, yeah, it was hard to bring myself to ease up on the miles without being [...]
As a dad with a six-year-old son, I have seen recently and recall from my own childhood how boys gravitate toward fantasy violence, whether in video games, books, movies, or imaginative play in the backyard with toys as simple as stick-swords in the hands of diminutive swashbucklers. Boys write stories about battles, and draw pictures [...]
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Since Kris is now napping on the couch in front of the wood stove, I get to write the first blog post about her first half marathon (though I won’t steal her fire by retelling too many of the stories – just wanted to post some of these pictures). She finished the 13.1 miles of [...]
Here’s a natural sales, customer-service and audience-building opportunity for local newspaper company Web sites. According to research from Webvisible and Nielsen, as reported on Media Post’s Research Brief blog, despite the fact that a majority of consumers and small businesses owners now search the Web first when looking for a local business, fewer than half [...]
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Mark Cuban included this tidbit in a recent blog post entitled “Tech & Misc Ramblings“: “On the topic of newspapers. Once they all declare chapter 11, they can get their cost structures in place to support far lower readership levels. At that point, probably less than 5 years and working from a low revenue base, [...]
I’ve had this 43 Folders post up in a browser tab for something like four days because I’d meant to write something quick but thoughtful about it for this blog. But I wanted to wait until I had time for thoughtful part. Which still has not arrived. So you get quick, because I have to [...]
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