Eating Green

"If there was a superwoman of the vegetable world, Vegetus would be her name — she’d run around on lean celery-stalk legs, wave robust carrot fingers and command people to eat their spinach and drink V8 juice." -my latest in Inside Columbia. Read all about it.

29000+ Feet

Our first movie outing in Santa Fe... appropriately, we spent the first part of the day on a mountain ourselves...

String

Winkley and her Christmas present.

Westward Ho!

"Missouri had long been the portal of American expansion, the pad where great expeditions were outfitted and adventures launched, the place where the westering fever burned at its highest pitch. It was the flash point, the port of embarkation." -learning about the Santa Fe Trail in Blood & Thunder: An Epic of the American West.

Hole in the Wall

"The walls were plastered with clay, and the ceilings still have soot from the fires that were used for light, heat and cooking." -my Santa Fe guidebook's description of the caves at Bandalier National Monument. Went yesterday -- fantastic.

Snow Hound

Christmas Eve Hike

"Of course, people do go both ways." -The Wizard of Oz (thought of this during our trek up Atalaya Mountain yesterday -- 9,100+ feet -- and of course we took the steeper route).

Merry Christmas!

Fast Food, Literally

"We had a deer crash through one of our dining room windows...one of our employees was a high school football player and ran into the dining room, cornered the deer and pulled him out of the restaurant in a headlock. It was a pretty amazing event to review on surveillance video!" -the owner of several mid-Missouri Taco Bell's tells us a story in the current Inside Columbia's CEO.

Running Clubs

"Twenty-page paper newsletters are the primary means of shuffling information among members (and the fact that I produce these documents eight times a year using a computer still amazes some of the old timers)." -my musings on the Columbia Track Club. Read the rest of my post about running clubs on RunnersWorld.com

Say a little prayer

Newsroom happiness :)

Christmas Cookies

"What's on the calendar for Christmas? More cookies in the toaster oven?" -e-mail from Jan. Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

Santa Fe National Forest

"If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." -Alan Watts

Let it Dough

See the rest here.

Value Meal

"Beer has food value, but food has no beer value." -printed on the bottom of our receipt at Second Street Brewery.

First Snow Day of 2010

Snow at Outside. Several inches and counting!

"Winter came down to our home one night, quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow." -Bill Morgan, Jr.

Registration Confirmation

May 7, 2011!

Audience

"It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you want to engage with the things that matter most to you?" -writer Amy Hempel

Working World

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." -Oscar Wilde

First week at Outside!

Yesterday's Run

Up a mountain to 8,612 feet elevation; 8 miles in almost 2.5 hours.

"Endurance is patience concentrated." -Thomas Carlyle.

On Track

"The railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make transit with great expedition." -Ambrose Bierce

Downtown Santa Fe

Stop? Maybe?

"Always look both ways before crossing a one-way street in New Mexico." -advice given to me during last night's run with the Santa Fe Striders. There are definitely some scary drivers in this town.

C is for Cookie

"I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert." -humorist Jason Love.

Turns out you can make cookies in a toaster oven....

Later Gator

"The big news is that long time employee Matt 'Homeslice' Dreier up and moved with his wife to Santa Fe. We will miss him dearly and hope he is having fun running up mountains and bombing down them on his bike." -latest Tryathletics newsletter. Kind of sad :(

Up up and away

"8,603." -our altitude on today's hike to Picacho Peak.

Sustainability

On the wall at the Santa Fe Farmers' Market.

Ho Ho No

"Santa Run called off for snow." -read the article here.

Moo to You

On the wall at the Ranch House Cafe in Canyon, Texas.

At the Gas Station

"Don't go trying to be all masculine on her." -a truck driver's way of telling Matt to let me do my share of the driving to Santa Fe.

And Another One...

Lunch stop

"Do what you want to be right or be happy." -sign outside of a pawn shop in Stroud, Oklahoma.