Around the Block, Around the Books
A clear, chilly morning of thirty degrees. Out under the stars, I ran for the forty-second consecutive day, making five weeks of barefoot sandal running. I saw no one, and was met by only one car, which was driven by one of this country’s many thousands of “independent contractors” delivering packages. I’m about halfway through Melville’s Typee, the narrator of which has come to question who is truly civilized — […]