Tuesday: RUN

So many exciting things about which to tell you!!  First of all, last night, as I was picking through the stack of books and magazines on my bedside table I found the December 14th issue of the New Yorker that I had set aside and THEN forgotten.  The week before Christmas issue of the New Yorker gives a list of the reviewers' favorite books organized by fiction and non-fiction.  I was pretty thrilled.  It was like a late Christmas present. Cleopatra (my current read) is unsurprisingly not listed, but The First Tycoon about Cornelius Vanderbilt IS listed.  Also I am interested in Wolf Hall a fiction about the Tudors that won The Booker Prize.    This issue of the New Yorker also includes a short story by David Foster Wallace who wrote one of the best commencement addresses I have ever read and I totally recommend that you read it. 

Anyway, in other news with Young Sloan climbing out of his bed, I made the decision to invest in a crib tent.  I refuse to give up on nap time, I refuse to give up on cribs.  We are tenting it up at the Sloan house and you can call it a cage if you want, but naps will be had!!  The crib tent is on the way, and I will keep you updated as to its progress.

In other news I am watching American Experience: Ronald Reagan: Lifeguard.  I am wildly impressed with " The Gipper", but do you know what is the most striking and unimpressive aspect of the documentary:  The Gipper drew the short straw when it came to children.  The two children by his first marriage seem like reasonable humans, BUT the two children that he had with Nancy just cannot stop droning on about themselves and behave as if their father's career is just the biggest burden that any human has had to bear.  They draw out their words and there is so much drama, they end every sentence GRAVELY as if even speaking of their horses and dad who taught them to swim when the were little is a legacy that weighs their souls.  Never have I been so worn out with anyone's children as I am with Reagan's.

Finally, in a busy day that got much busier much faster than I expected, I was able to get in a very fast three mile run in the chilly afternoon.  It felt great, and I thought the whole time I ran that next week, I would be running at 6:00 AM, because speed sessions are coming up!!