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DC Spinster: May 2014
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About running and life in the DC area. Monday, May 26, 2014. It's Memorial Day, a time for remembrances. I miss my children, I miss my parents. Dad served at Peleliu in 1944,. And Okinawa in 1945,. Before he left us in 1986. Mom was with us for another 13 years before she passed on. JJ&D, be well. Happy Memorial Day to all. Links to this post. Sunday, May 25, 2014. Out with the old, in with the new. Last year about the vast majority of runners in DC:. President of D.C. Road Runners. Links to this post.
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DC Spinster: January 2015
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About running and life in the DC area. Tuesday, January 6, 2015. One of my favorite memories from law school is a party some students in my small section threw at their townhouse to celebrate the end of our three years of study. I was an oddity in my small section in that I was older than everyone else in the section and I had three kids already. The only problem was that Jimmy didn't know how to push the dispensing lever on the outlet to allow the beer to flow after being pumped. But amidst Jimmy's ...
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DC Spinster: Great Expectations
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About running and life in the DC area. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. I'm reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It sure is slow going but it sure is good reading. Some paragraphs are a page long! Stead, what, a Harry Potter book? This reduces the stern old spinster, who never left her bridal party room when jilted at the altar decades earlier, into a weeping and prostrate. Supplicant whom Pip comforts. The evolution of a boy-turned-fop into a freestanding, freethinking young man who- what? Another Mi...
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DC Spinster: April 2015
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About running and life in the DC area. Thursday, April 2, 2015. I received an I-Phone today at work, so as of 4 pm on April 2, 2015 my life was transformed! I went around to all my friends at work staring at the implement assigned to me, an I-Phone 6 so no big deal apparently, telling them that my life had been transformed by receipt of this device and that I was practicing worshipping my palm (with this miraculous God-device cradled within my palm). Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Bad Id...
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DC Spinster: Happy Place
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About running and life in the DC area. Saturday, July 11, 2015. I been running, yeah. I'm in a happy place currently with it, having logged over 100 miles last month. (The Washington Monument is ever-present on the Mall, as seen from the veranda of the Lincoln Memorial.). I run with friends usually. Sometimes I run alone, but that's work and not as much fun. (Interesting cloud cover over the Lincoln Memorial.). Like this for celebrating her birthday. Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 4:55:00 AM EDT. DC Rainmak...
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DC Spinster: February 2015
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About running and life in the DC area. Saturday, February 28, 2015. And Still More Happy Happy. Happy b'day, youngest son (pictured here with your loving Grandmother, who gave the money that allowed you to go to the Gow School, and was generous with me as well which enabled me to fully fund your college tuition and fees). I trust that you are alive (your Mother wouldn't tell me when I asked her in Nov.) and hope that you are well (she wouldn't tell me that either). Links to this post. And More Happy Happy.
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DC Spinster: Great Expectations--Monetary or Personal?
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About running and life in the DC area. Friday, July 24, 2015. Great Expectations- Monetary or Personal? I finally finished Great Expectations- Pip's great expectations have vanished, leaving him in debt but also forcing him to undergo redemption and turn from a fop into a man. Perhaps the point of the book is that great expectations aren't monetary, as it's ruinous to expect to be made happy by money, but rather great expectations are personal, as associations are ultimately rewarding. Old School Runner ...
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DC Spinster: October 2014
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About running and life in the DC area. Thursday, October 16, 2014. The Kansas City Royals. But maybe not so unfair as it seemed. The Royals then went on to sweep the Orioles, who won the AL East and hit the most home runs in baseball, in a 7-game series. They swept them 4-0. (Great black baseball teams were in KC before integration in the big leagues, and there is a Negro Leagues Museum there now.). Break up the Royals! Links to this post. Monday, October 13, 2014. I remember the minus-degrees 20-mile ru...
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DC Spinster: December 2014
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About running and life in the DC area. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Year In Review IV. Here are some of my favorite times from 2014. I had some nice noontime wintertime runs on the Mall. I took third in my AG in a wintery 5K. I ran with some former running buddies, including Bex, my first buddy, and David, Markus, John and others. I had some great solo runs, especially around the Tidal Basin, my favorite running venue. Wreathed in Cherry Blossom blooms. I heard some secrets. secrets. Links to this post.