“I was in the same mold as Joe DiMaggio. Nothing flashy. What you saw on Monday was the same thing you got on Friday.” –…
Posts published by “Jim Gibbons”
The worst part for me about running the 70th annual Bay-to-Breakers was not the 27,300 official registered runners, or even the 10,000 or so unregistered…
The night before the Russian River Run, Sally Miklose calls me from her motel room in Ukiah because her 16-year-old son Jesse wants to find…
All I can say in my defense is that it seemed like a good idea at the time. A bunch of arms-chair jocks getting together…
Ed was a stocky 150-pounder I used to train with back in 1979-80. He figured the reason I ran faster than him was because I…
1978 was the year I got my teaching credential from Sonoma State University, bought a little house in Willits for $15,000, and was hired that…
It’s been one year since my book came out. I had joined a Hawaii writers’ group at the end of 2016 to get some inspiration…
An old friend recently asked me, after I told him I was retired, “What do you do all day?” He asked me in an email,…
Self-publishing my book was much tougher than writing it, and getting it out there for people to see that it exists – plugging it – has been a real learning experience.
March 7, 2003 — I first heard about the WalMart shootout on the morning news, then read about it in the local newspapers. An ex-con…
Been on board the Constance one month today. We left another beautiful anchorage and not really sure where we’ll be tonight, but somewhere about half-way to Golfito, our last stop in Costa Rica.