Before my post for the week, there are two things I want to do: Thank you and give a preview of things to come. First, thank you for your patience as I continue to tweak the formatting. When I knew I wanted to start a newsletter, I knew what I wanted to write about, but…

I read an article in The Atlantic this week by Alex Hutchinson about the role of luck in athletic success. There’s a lot in it to unpack, so I’m going to make my thoughts about it the first series in Warm Current. The piece is called, “An Under-appreciated Variable in Sports Success: Sometimes athletes just…

I got very sick on Christmas day. The kind of sickness where you go from feeling fine to shivering in bed in the span of an hour. I suspect it was the flu.  Whatever it was, it’s knocked me off stride for almost two weeks now. I tried running on New Year’s Day, and my…

I’m not a religious person, but I do enjoy that in the darkest days of the year, people (at least where I live) do seem to be a little bit more conscious of kindness and patience. Okay, sure, maybe not in grocery or department store aisles two days before Christmas. But I’ve witnessed a bit…