Writing on Running and Other Things

Kate Bush that is (get your mind out of the gutter). And more specifically her song This Woman’s Work.  It goes without saying that song is a tearjerker.  What person born in the 70s or 80s can hear it and not immediately picture Kevin Bacon in She’s Having a Baby sitting in a hospital waiting room with tears streaming down his face while his wife undergoes emergency surgery due to complications during the labor and delivery of their son.   What resonates particularly for me in that song is the regret expressed over lost opportunities. “Of all the things I should’ve said that I never said. All the things we should’ve done that we never did.” When my brother, Maurice, passed away at the age of 56, I experienced deep regret.  Regret that I didn’t keep in touch with him better.  That I didn’t go see him in Singapore or Berkeley or various other amazing places that he lived over the years.  At the time, it seemed like not spending money on travel was the pruden...

I published my first and only book, Darkness Drops Again, about three years ago. While it received some pretty good reviews and I was insanely proud of it, it didn’t launch my writing career the way I’d hoped.  Since self publishing isn’t cheap, I decided I was done with writing until I found an agent and a publisher for my next book.  Well, three years later neither of those things have happened and I miss writing.  So I’ve decided to launch this blog where I can post musings about my obsession with running, but also chapters of the sequel to Darkness Drops Again as I write them.  It’ll keep me writing even if I don’t ever become the next John Grisham. So without further ado, here is chapter one of the sequel to Darkness Drops Again: Grasping For The Light. Chapter 1 I jog the last flight of stairs to the downstairs living room in my grey joggers and favorite black tank.  When I reach the bottom I find my best friend Zara Patel sitting on the couch, scrolling t...