The only race in Connecticut on Easter Sunday seemed like a good time to check off Vernon, previously known to me only as the home of the legendary Rein’s Deli. The course was a nice rails-to-trails packed dirt trail, and the race was low-key and populated with lots of dogs and their owners, and folks […]
Entries from April 2017
169 Towns #41: Vernon
April 16th, 2017 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #41: Vernon
169 Towns #40: Canterbury
April 15th, 2017 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #40: Canterbury
The timing worked out to run this race, this weekend, but I was woefully unprepared to run a 10K. I had only run three times in the previous two weeks, and it had been since October that I’d run more than 6 miles. Still, it wasn’t my worst showing at the distance, and it was […]
Movie Week VI: Paris edition
April 1st, 2017 · Comments Off on Movie Week VI: Paris edition
It’s been five years since my last Movie Week, an annual event in Los Angeles when I’d take a survey of the moviegoing landscape by going to a movie in a different theater every night for a week. I did it for five years between 2008 and 2012. Many reasons contributed to the hiatus—two kids […]
