DC Spinster

About running and life in the DC area.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

The bleakest season . . .

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It's that extra day in the year, February 29th, one that comes only every four years. The last time it came I was in my sixties, and st...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Phone Call

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2023 in Review. August 2d. The phone rang at 6:30 AM her time, exactly two weeks after we’d tenderly kissed goodbye and I’d driven away at m...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

The Visit

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In July a friend visited me from out west and we had a wonderful time traveling about for almost a week. After she met with a specialist in...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Pickleball Wars

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Pickleball Musings from a FB post I wrote in July. Here in September, this woman can't beat me, yet. We played to 11-6 recently (in sing...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

I read more than a dozen books in 2020 . . .

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. . . and these are the dozen that I thought were the most impressive, in order of best to less significant. 1.      The Guns at Last Light:...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Books I read in 2021, Part II

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In 2021 I read 18 books, and earlier this month I posted the first six of the dozen that had the most impact on me. Here are books 7-12 on ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

2021 Books--A half dozen

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 I lost control of my blog in late 2020 and wrote about 60 posts in a nearby blog which now I can't locate.  C'est le guerre.  I see...
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DC area, East Coast, United States
I started running in 2000.
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