Reading, Running, and Red Sox

After only 39 miles, the shoe on the right isn't looking so vertical. No obvious signs of collapse along the medial edge thou...

Baseball is a funny game. On one hand, it seems very simple. Throw ball, hit ball, catch ball.  But part of the allure of the game is how co...

David Mitchell is a smart man. He’s written six novels, and like any good postmodernist, all of them have both small and large connections w...

On the last day of 2014, I went running in the mountains of Tanzawa-Oyama Quasi-National Park.  The first bus to Okura arrived at 7:00 A...