I don’t buy groceries in-person very often, and when I do, I rarely use a grocery list.  Which may explain why I constantly feel like I don’t have the groceries I need. So today, I tried to be efficient and organized and headed off to Cub with an actual grocery list.  A grocery list that…

Location. Location. Location. It’s not only important for real estate, but also sandwiches.  Eating hummus sandwiches has become one of life’s greatest small pleasures for me. (Yes, “greatest small” makes complete sense here). The sandwiches are nothing sexy–Village Hearth Light Wheat or 12 Grain bread (hardly fine quality bread but it works), hummus (usually Tribe…

Previously on my blog, I tried to delve into poetic, even spiritual, aspects of running the 2022 Twin Cities Marathon.  Now that I’ve got that out of the way…this will be a more prosaic “I did this and saw this and felt this and learned this” post (not surprisingly, this post will be longer).  I…

“How can you be bored during a marathon?” Chad posed that question to me in the days before I was scheduled to run my fourth marathon, as I was anxiously obsessing about how I would do. Among my litany of worries was how I would deal with the boredom.  I was just as surprised that…

When I was in 8th grade, a friend told me that I looked like a rabbit in my class photo.  That wasn’t exactly the look I was going for.  This memory surfaced recently when I was playing gangster moll Edna Murray in the latest Landmark Center history play.   Edna’s nickname was “Rabbit.” Well, “Rabbit” was …

If extraterrestrial cultural anthropologists are studying contemporary American society, they probably think extroverts and introverts are mortal enemies. Or rival NFL teams.  I don’t want to be a hater or rile up any argument. I do think we should all be careful not to assume we know what another person’s thoughts or experiences are.  Personally,…

It’s one week until the Twin Cities Marathon!  What I should do during this week to prepare: Things I should NOT do: Silly, but mostly harmless, although potentially annoying, things I WILL do: Something I really, truly, SHOULD do:

I. Can’t. Do. This.  That thought kept pounding through my being like a drum beat, which I guess was appropriate, as I was also literally playing the drums. But it wasn’t the drum playing I was worried about–at least not so worried that I didn’t think I could go–but the drumming while singing lead during…

I don’t have a good reason for running the 2022 Twin Cities Marathon (about two and a half weeks away).  That doesn’t mean I have a bad reason (although I really don’t have room in my life for another Finisher’s shirt or medal). I just don’t have a clear, inspirational reason that’s pushing me to…

When I was in fifth grade, I read a short story as part of the Junior Great Books program by Ray Bradbury called “All Summer in a Day.” (Inspiration for a previous blog post: https://amyluedtke.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/all-apocalypse-in-a-day/). All these many years later, I still remember that story–a rather horrifying little tale about a girl who misses the…