Confession time: I am a nerd. I’ve always been a nerd, and I always will be. I’m a nerd on multiple levels, really. I love science fiction, high fantasy, computers, and comic books, on top of classical music, show tunes, and the juvenilia of Charlotte Brontë. My bookshelves overflow with Japanese comics, Annie Dillard, and [...]

I’ve worked in and out of offices for years. I used to work in higher ed., where I sat at a desk in various offices at various colleges. This was pretty early in my marriage. I was making good money, and was basically pretty happy. And you know what they say about the “happy cat.” [...]

“I am a runner.” What a statement. For much of my life (just about all of it, really), I thought runners were a special breed of people. Mysteriously blessed with agility, fierce will, and heaps of surplus energy, runners were born runners. And the rest of us were born… not-runners. Maybe not inferior, but not [...]