By: Chris Berl | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking "F*CK!" I yell at the top of my lungs. "F*! You better be ready cause here I come!" I''m running at read more
By: Jack Mageean | 2010-05-29 | Writing & Speaking The Old Dog 10K Training Blues The Bright Idea How did I ever get into this? Is it because I was born with the gift of laughter and a slight sense that the world is mad? Or, to paraphrase Bobby Kennedy, some people look at things and say, why ? and I look at things and say, ah, what the hell. read more
By: Justin West | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking The Race They crouch in their designated positions, to the left-to the right, hiding their anxiety beneath a stoical mask of preparation. This is it-the silence before the thunder, the calm before the storm-then it is. This is not the beginning, it is before the beginning. read more
By: Shannon Myers | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking I ran away from home twice, from two different homes. I never went back to either of those homes, and I do not regret the decision I made to leave. I ran away from my mother''s home when I was fourteen years old. read more
By: Roxanna Kay | 2010-05-29 | Writing & Speaking It was midnight when my blind date dropped me off at home. He promised to be back at one-thirty to pick me up at the corner and take me to Pasadena, Texas with him. Quietly, I entered my house. The image of my dad sitting in the recliner horrified me. He should''ve been in bed already. read more
By: Mac a'Bhaird | 2010-05-28 | Writing & Speaking Circa 1967 It’s been so long now I don’t remember my buddy’s name; for sake of telling this story I’ll call him Steve (as I think that WAS his name). I met him in San Francisco just a few months before summer. read more
By: Susanna Barlow | 2008-10-13 | Writing & Speaking I wanted to write my story. It was that simple. I felt driven by this desire for a very long time. It wasn't until I was twenty eight that I bought me a computer and a typing tutorial and began the task of putting my words to paper. (Journals don't... read more
By: Patricia Kutner | 2010-05-28 | Writing & Speaking I can tell when most people hear that I have four dogs, two birds and three stray cats that they think I am a nut. The disbelief I believe comes from the fact that I don''t look like one of those nuts that walk multiple dogs and feed stray cats. read more
By: Sara Mcgrath | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking "I run down the street screaming and crying," my sister says. "Me, too," I say, "Like a lunatic." I read more
By: Steve Chapman | 2010-05-28 | Writing & Speaking home. My life experience has run contrary to that, and at 48, I have never lost my desire to go home. read more
By: David Elder | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking snapshots of life as they run through my head remind me of simpler days when it seemed that summer was too read more
By: Tyanne Hunt | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking Caretaking For the first time in my 45 years I was completely and utterly alone, no one to run around from read more
By: Audrey Hardy | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking sitting up in the bed with tears running down my face. "Of course she misses you. She loves you, but you read more
By: Maya Menon | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Boston, among others, had their place in his run -down old car with their CD read more
By: Tyanne Hunt | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking Caretaking For the first time in my 45 years on this earth, I was completely and utterly alone, no one to runread more
By: Aretha Brown | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking any children. They both started out too young, my father was running with a gang and was very abusive read more
By: Raymond De Vries | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking "No sir, you will not be allowed into France" The fat immigration officer had his mind made up. As a manager of a group of international top athletes I was used to dealing with unwilling authorities trying to cross the borders in Europe. read more