Ernesto on July 15th, 2009

Going into what feels like my fourth serious training cycle somewhere in my second year of more intense running (as opposed to the 3 mile run 3 times a week habit I maintained for years prior), I’ve noticed a lot of changes about the way I approach running, physically, mentally and in otherwise. One seems [...]

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Ernesto on June 13th, 2009

Drawing pictures with the kids this morning – here’s mine.  I guess reading the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue this week has got me imitating a certain style here…  And no, I haven’t gotten any writing done yet this weekend.

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I just finished writing my 100 page (102, really) screenplay in 30 days. So this is going to be a really short blog post. I decided to take on the ScriptFrenzy.org challenge for a number of reasons — none of which had to do with me having free time to kill.  In fact, I have [...]

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Ernesto on August 17th, 2008

Just finished Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Murakami is a Japanese novelist and distance runner who weaves the two interests together in this plainspoken book on how these two activities feed each other, compliment each other, and seem to appeal to a certain personality type.  Feeling much in common [...]

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… containing a blood curdling story from yours truly.

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And it seems, very little respect for the beliefs and traditions of other people. These would be traits one would expect to be present in greater quality and quanity in a professional religion writer. Washington Post/Newsweek writer Sally Quinn on taking communion at Tim Russert's funeral: "Last Wednesday at Tim's funeral mass [...]

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