A One Mile Race By Laura J. Graham The day Laurel went mad dawned like any other October day: cold, crisp, beautiful. This day began a bit unusually however, in that Laurel had signed up for a one mile race, to benefit some charity or other. She rose early and after performing her […]
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A retrospective on running
In 1976 I spent what my mother termed a “young fortune” (i.e., $17.00) on a pair of Nike running shoes, and thus was born a 40-year, on-again-off-again, “It’s complicated” relationship between me and this activity. I gave it up numerous times, but always went back until about five years ago when my left foot and […]
Fear of falling
One of my childhood friends who loved horses grew up to start a riding academy. It was a successful venture for her until tragedy did what tragedy sometimes does: one of the students died after falling off her horse during a lesson. I was already in Alaska by then, and my mother wrote me about […]