This is a follow up to: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Poor planning on my part — or not — but the long weekend played havoc with my running plans.  Ideally, I should find myself running wherever I happen to wake up on any given morning.  On this instance it happened to be in Red [...]

This is a follow up to: Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4
The last week has shown a marked improvement in both my times and Sparkle’s attitude. Would you believe that she nudged me out the door on Monday, pulled all the way to the park, and was running before we hit the asphalt. [...]

This is a follow up to: Parts 1, 2 & 3
Not counting my five kilometer road race on Saturday, Sparkle and I are completed eight runs to date. And things continue to improve. For myself, I’ve had one of my best weeks ever, completing a total of nearly twelve kilometers over three runs, and [...]

This is a follow up to: Parts 1 & 2
Six runs down, Sparkle continues to do well (with the exception of one messy Friday morning — check out the comments in Part 2, link above.) Our focus has improved and my endurance is increasing for these early morning jaunts that used to be sheer torture. [...]

This is a follow up to: Part 1
Three runs down, Sparkle is taking to the jogging business quite well. I updated in the comments of Part 1 that our biggest issue has been her reluctance to de-bowel upon command. The result of that is she goes out full and the impulse to clean [...]

I’ve been thinking on the topic, I’ve decided to post some of my research and (eventually) observations from starting a running program with a dog. Hopefully this will be useful to someone digging through Google searches one day. This is “part one” of many. (Though if I get more than five official entries [...]

Most of you like as not will not care, but if you’ve been salivating at the notion of more sporadic talk here about steampunk, et cetera, Jeff Vandermeer is offering via his blog personalized (read: signed and scribbled) copies of a new anthology he co-edited with his wife. I ordered mine.
If you can’t wait, [...]

I stumbled upon an interesting link the other day; It’s a simple little web page that generates ideas to help get one started on writing a blog post, when one has not the foggiest of what to write about. I clicked there just a moment ago to search for inspiration and this was the [...]

It’s the end of the month, and the last few weeks since coming back from vacation has been one of some musical experimentation. I’ve been threading the iPod with an often eclectic collection of modern sounds to keep the brain fresh and spry with tastes that are trending away from what I learned to [...]

We would strongly recommend checking out “Supersize Me” if you have not already. It will shift your mentality on food. Well, fast food.
We skated on down to the theater last night, despite the threat of rain. It didn’t. And considering the nature of the beast — and the fact we were [...]