Stump Speeches

My relationship with son #1 has been significantly defined by competition.  Starting with Ken Griffey Jr.'s Homerun on the SNES, we...

On Wednesday last week I decided to run the half-marathon in the Sunburst race this weekend in South Bend.  It's a fun race, with abo...

We like running in our family.  I've been a runner of some sort since junior high, and have made it a significant part of my lifestyle f...

Last night was the Living Waters 5k at Oxbow County Park.  One of Casey's friends from school was in charge of it, raising money for dri...

I started running more regularly last June, and that's when I started keeping a running log. With today's six mile run, I went over ...

I ran at lunchtime today at the Bethel track. When I got back to my office afterwards, I had this email message waiting for me from a Bethel...

So I have these three boys--here posing at a Wal-Mart in Wisconsin during a recent vacation (yes, we vacation at Wal-Marts). Like most boys,...

We had a little mini-vacation last weekend, and one of the stops was at an outlet mall. I took a couple of the boys to an arcade and gave th...

So, in the new book I talked about last time , there are some pretty interesting essays. Some don't really have a lot to do with running...

For those of you reading this on the blog site , you'll notice on the side bar my there is a feed from the running log that I keep. I wa...