Hiroshima

Hiroshima is most certainly one of the places on earth every American should visit. World War II is beyond the memory for me and for most of my friends, but it shouldn’t be far from our hearts even if it happened before we were born. When I was a high school...

This Week in Tokyo

This morning I took my first–and probably only–run in Tokyo. The temperature was easily 90 by the time Bill and I left our apartment, and the humidity was about 65%. Within a quarter of a mile we were drenched. By the time we’d made it to the park...

Travel Running

A few days ago, there was a terrific article in USA Today about travel running: running as a way to see the sights when you’re on vacation. You might think that what Bill and I did as we quested to run a marathon on every continent was the kind of travel running...

Love, Sweet Love

Twenty-two years ago, I walked into Old Main at Western Washington University for a job interview. Bill offered me a job as a teacher’s assistant that day, and I enrolled in the class he required (and taught) for assistants in his program. I quickly became...

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