I ran my last half-marathon in July 2004, and descended into a summer of physical therapy afterwards to tame my rebellious IT band. My physical therapist had me stop running for close to two months, and I gradually built my mileage back up again once he had massaged and stretched my IT band back into …
Category: New York City
Year of Magical Thinking
I think I only briefly mentioned reading Joan Didion‘s memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking earlier this year. That brief mention in no way reflected my opinion of the book. In fact, my reluctance to address my thoughts in this blog probably stemmed from the emotional weight of reading it and my own inability to …
In The News
The first thing I do in the morning is turn on NPR so that Soterios Johnson on WNYC‘s Morning Edition can inform me about what’s happening in NYC and around the world while I sip my coffee and get ready for work. Each day for the past couple of years, hearing the number of people …
Flames
The other night I was woken up by the wailing of sirens very close by. I looked out my bedroom window, which faces the back of the building, and couldn’t see anything unusual (last year, I was woken by flames coming out of the back of a building next door and we had to evacuate …