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Category Archives: the sporting life

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Running with ghosts

January 14, 2020by SFine 1 Comment

I was not the only one entranced by the weird crystal blueness of your eyes

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Bird's Eye View, reflections, The Daily Write, the sporting life

I’m not your tomboy or your tiny dancer either.

July 9, 2017by SFine Leave a comment

The first person to call me a tomboy was Cathy Lidisky. “Me and Sandy are tomboys, aren’t we?” she said, as if sure of my agreement. We were in sixth […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, feminism, growing up midwestern, not horror, reflections, the sporting life

The View From My Run: Election Edition

November 8, 2016by SFine 5 Comments

I brought my phone on my daily run so that I could start tracking my progress with the Strava app and also because I live in a beautiful place and […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, feminism, reflections, the sporting life

When Your Husband Sits Next To A Goddess & Other Rainy Day Baker Thoughts

October 14, 2016by SFine Leave a comment

Originally posted on Caneléfornia:
It’s a rainy day and so I tried to cut the morning walk short but Jake wasn’t having any of it.  Come on, I say…

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, not horror, reflections, the sporting life

Running as Creative Force or, A Good Start to the Year

January 2, 2016by SFine Leave a comment

I’m not superstitious (much) but if the way the first day of 2016 has unfolded is predictive of the year I will have, then I will have a year where difficult […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror, the sporting life

I Can See Your iPod Playlist and I am Quietly Judging You

October 21, 2013by SFine 13 Comments

If you sit or stand next to me on the bus, in line at the grocery store, or at the gym, I will try to peek at your iPod playlist. […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, reflections, the sporting life

Getting in Deep: The End of Ski Season

April 10, 2013by SFine Leave a comment

Don’t leave me, I tell him. I won’t, he says. I’ll be right there with you. Because I’m not sure I can do it, I tell him. You can do […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, the sporting life

Follow Me

November 19, 2012by SFine Leave a comment

It’s a mild day, the sunlight lying easily on the olive green hills that I am preparing to run.   For a person from the Midwest whose memories are of green […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, the sporting life

To a Triathlete, Dying Young

November 18, 2012by SFine Leave a comment

Barbara Warren competed in the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii 13 times, finishing in the top 5 of her age group eight times, and winning her age group in […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, the sporting life

Steep

November 17, 2012by SFine Leave a comment

Not long ago I watched a movie about extreme skiers and snowboarders.   I know many good skiers. I know backcountry skiers,  skiers who think double black diamonds are a […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, the sporting life

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