*Everyone needs a rest day, right? As it is in running, so it is in life. So tonight, I bring you a guest post from Nat, the greatest feminist fiancé a gal could ask for. Why Miss Marple Matters or The Curious Case of the Miss Marple Movie Disney has a long history of turning …
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The Perfect Short
It’s official: I’m tired of the summer. Specifically, I’m tired of it being so warm that I have to run in shorts all the time. I can’t wait for it to get a little bit cooler–cool enough that I can run in capris and put my shorts away. I’ve searched high, low, far, and wide …
Running Down a Dream
While I was training for my first marathon, I had several dreams about what the race would be like. In one of them, the race was set in a really weird historical era: the height of the Aztec civilization. How my brain came up with that one, I’ll never know. The marathon consisted of running …
What’s Going On?
Weeks like this really make me wonder what it is about the idea of being thin that is so appealing. Somehow, thin has come to describe not only the size of one’s body, but also a variety of other things about one’s life. The idea of thin is also the idea of perfection, beauty, ease, …
Confession
Here’s a confession: for the past couple weeks, I’ve been pretty fixated on all the little parts of my body that I wish I could change. Several times I’ve seriously considered the various ways in which I could try to lose some weight. More than once I’ve completely given myself over to the idea that …
