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  • life Reading

    Life + Death + Thoughts

    Near-death experiences I am reading about near-death experiences in You Only Die Once. I am trying to decide whether my own near-death experience ~9 months ago has had a profound impact on my mindset/attitudes/thinking.…

    July 23, 2024
  • Fitness Reading

    Workouts + Reading

    Higher Mileage Week It was hot this week. Well — truthfully there is not much variation here in weather over the summer. I guess that’s SORT of a good thing – we’re unlikely to…

    July 21, 2024
  • life Reading

    Friday Bits of Randomness

    I have a bunch of thoughts swirling in my head about the contradiction between the book I am reading (You Only Die Once — which suggests we should be really aware of mortality and…

    July 19, 2024
  • life Parenting Reading

    Notes + Links on a Tuesday

    LINKS: TikTok in middle school (NYT gift link courtesy of Jo Piazza’s substack). I wanted to cry reading this. I continue to feel like social media in middle school is like talking a forest…

    July 16, 2024
  • life Reading

    5 on a Friday: Interesting Things Lately

    1- Thank you for your thoughts/insights re: strength training! I really think I want to try something different. Many of you pointed out how working with a trainer or in a gym can be…

    July 12, 2024
  • Fitness Reading

    Running + Reading

    This was a really tough week for me. Call (which I would rate as 7/10 on the “call week toughness” scale) + a kid with pneumonia was just a lot. But it’s almost over…

    June 30, 2024
  • Fitness Reading

    Workouts + Reading

    Running + Strength I’m not sure when 47 miles started to feel like a lower mileage week, but it kind of did. This level of running felt very manageable — I guess because most…

    June 16, 2024
  • Fitness Reading

    Reading & Workouts

    Recovery Week #2 And a (sort of?) triumphant return to strength training! M: 6.15 mi with J + T (some slightly faster 8:30ish miles and a R/W segment with T who is recovering from…

    June 9, 2024
  • life Reading

    5 on a Friday: Attention, Clutter, Books, Etc

    1- One of my current favorite topics seems to be back in my podcast feed: ATTENTION. Very interesting Ezra Klein ep today entitled “Your Mind is Being Fracked.” Dramatic — yes. But interesting too.…

    May 31, 2024