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It’s been a busy holiday weekend! Our neighbor Todd gave us tickets to the Philadelphia Thanksgiving day parade on Thursday — the green tickets, the ones that let you sit in the bleachers across from the art museum. We had a great time: each of us had two chemical hand warmers in our gloves and…

I guess this is marathon week! I just discovered that my friend and colleague Jeff Eades proposed at the end of the New York City marathon! Here’s the site.

I hit a deer last night. Or it hit me, to be more accurate. I had taken White’s ferry across the Potamac, and was driving up Maryland route 109, which is a small back road connecting the ferry to I-70. I was zipping through a particularly lonely patch, with woods on one side close up…

On Sunday, Kate and I went to cheer on our friend Meg in the Philadelphia Marathon. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to cheer my dad on in the Boston Marathon; I particularly remember waiting at the top of Heartbreak Hill, watching runners come staggering over the crest looking grim as…

Kate and I attend Downingtown Friends’ Meeting, somewhat sporadically. Both our families have roots there, Kate’s more than mine — her Thomas ancestors were the first to get married in the building. My best Quaker ancestor was thrown out of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for shipping “Quaker guns” on his China trader. That is to say,…

Kate’s selling her Erg: Link to the eBay auction page!

Lah-di-dah-di, lah-di-dah-di, off the hook is how I party! The past two weeks, I’ve been driving from West Chester down to Herndon, VA a lot. It’s turning into a rhythm: wheels turning at 6AM, turn on Y100’s morning show until they fade out at the Maryland border, catch the traffic reports to see whether to…

If you’re reading this, go check out the thing I’m working on: The Humility Machine

The estimable Will Ronco has risen to the challenge, telling me how much energy is contained in my 66 Butterfinger bars left over from Halloween: I’ve got some preliminary info about those candy bars (you didn’t think i’d let a challenge like that pass unanswered did you?) anyway, given the 17,820 kcals in your remaining…

After several back-to-back brutal experiences on 495, I started taking the back way to Herndon, VA. Rural Maryland is beautiful, especially now that the leaves are turning, and route 70 from Baltimore to Frederick is a pretty fast ride. I’ve been listening to the radio a lot more, of course, since I get in about…