I recently finished Frozen Ed Furtaw's "Tales From Out There: The Barkley Marathons, The World's Toughest Trail Race", and near the end there was a description of a sleep-deprived ultrarunner who had an experience that I howled my way through... I suspect that many folks who have similarly pushed their limits and experienced that state of " ( Read more... )

( Tulugaq: An Oral History of Ravens )

First, a little book tourism: I have new travel ambitions. Portugal. Buenos Aires. And Los Angeles. I've been talking with my friends about where we've gone to ebooks and where we haven't, the loss of the social aspect of reading (I hate it when I go to the Silent Reading Party and I can't tell what anyone else is reading because they have an ( Read more... )

( A Night in the Lonesome October )

In talking with one of my male friends earlier this week, he was apologizing for schedule-wrangling, and I said, "Don't worry about it! Everybody knows that you're a man of your word." This was totally the right thing to say. A couple of days later, I had a discussion of the concept with one of my boyfriends. He, too, strongly values both being ( Read more... )

I read the books in this batch in preparation for my EMT clinical rotations in western North Carolina.

( Cherokee Thoughts: Honest & Uncensored )

( In the First Circle )