Tarmac Meditations #48: Track Work on Election Day
There are moments you never forget. On election day in Oregon, Michael looks back to the time he got his voter’s card when he came out of rehab, and how a bureaucratic slip of paper signaled a new start.
Learning to Live
The way Roxanne saw it, she had two choices: become homeless on the streets of Vancouver, or go into rehab in a rural community.
Tarmac Meditations #45: Get Your Ass Out and Run!
Running takes more than physical energy — it’s also a mental pursuit, as Michael Lebowitz knows well.
Tarmac Meditations #42: Slow Leaving
With the sound track of a Joni Mitchell song on his mind, a runner thinks about leaving for home after a marathon.
A Letter to Cocaine
A woman writes a farewell letter to cocaine, the drug that held her in such a grip that she gave up almost everything for it — and still it wanted more.
Tarmac Meditations #41: Marathon Day
Michael heads from Oregon up to Canada for a marathon in Victoria — and still manages to get some writing before daylight done.
Tarmac Meditations #40: The Artifact
A runner who knows the feeling of “oldandslow” thinks about artifacts that result from the process of creating.
No Man’s Land
An addict finds the eye of the storm in a local park and it changes everything.
Morning Wood
A man ponders his age and his life after a night spent with a younger woman.
Tarmac Meditations #37: Cathedral of Morning Mist
Michael Lebowitz explores a runner’s life, from feeling good about running, to dreading it, to psyching yourself out to do it again — and then there are all these poetic pauses in between.
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