Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.

According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.

Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.

I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

I like to think of myself as a naturalist - insofar as that term is at all clear.