Soppho

I have a Halloween-appropriate confession: I’ve always wanted to be Glinda from the Wizard of Oz. And come on, who wouldn’t? She’s like the Pope of Oz. She has an awesome hat and a snazzy, shiny outfit that could easily smuggle the entire Health & Beauty section out of the grocery store. She gets [...]

Charlottesville 10-miler training begins tomorrow. I won’t be there; I’ll be spending the next few weeks hobbling uncertainly along on my shin splints, seeing if I can still run the Richmond Half-Marathon in mid-November. W., resident 10-miler ring leader, will the there though, and I have to admit, her enthusiasm sort of makes me wish [...]

It turns out the only thing that makes Y Chromosome crazier than incessantly interrogating him about the origins, size, shape, and contents of my birthday present, is feigning disinterest in anything of the sort. My birthday was a little less than a month ago, and when the big day came and he brought the present [...]

A year ago next week I began running. Charlottesville is lucky enough not only to have a couple of Mom and Pop running stores and a track club, but also several running training programs throughout the year. A friend of mine graduated from the Women’s 4-miler training program last summer, and decided to join the [...]

I was going through old emails this morning, and found this one from my Dad, dated from my senior year of college. I actually went through the trouble of seeking out and forwarding this one to myself from my old college email account when it was about to expire. The topic is hardly remarkable; several [...]