Sylvia's Scenario

Bruce was thrilled to receive the book  Running With Raven  for Father's Day when we opened presents tonight after another family barbecue at our house.  We had three dads here tonight for dinner; my brother, Bob, Bruce and my sister's husband, Jim. It was a smaller crowd that last Sunday when we had 16 people here but still another delicious meal.  Lauren and Ari brought a marinated green salad from Metropolitan Market deli (our favorite neighborhood grocer) that had summer squash, eggplant and various other vegetables; Barbara and Jim brought a homemade green salad and bread; Bob and Jennifer brought a homemade quinoa salad and teriyaki chicken that we cooked on the grill and we provided drinks and appetizers of  smoked salmon  and caprese. (mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil with a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.) The drinks were once again  Mai Tai's  and gin & tonics.  I'm...

Bruce completed another 8 mile run with Raven  on beautiful South Beach.  He remembered Bruce, sort of, after they started talking.  Bruce wore his  Raven T-Shirt  that Raven mailed to him after he completed his first run with him. Two years ago, Bruce was runner number 1,942.  Now that Bruce has run with him twice, he is among 1,500 people who have run with Raven more than once.  If Bruce could run with Raven three times, he'd be among 1,000 people out of the 2,500 people who have run with Raven over the past 41 years.  We have noticed that Bruce, or nicknamed "Permission" by Raven, is now listed in Raven's  website  on the map as one of the runners from all over the world who have run with Raven. He is tagged as a runner from Idaho since that's where we lived during Bruce's first run. Bruce does not feel nearly as sore this time as he did two years ago after the run.  Back then, he could barely walk since he usua...

We are back from our vacation and Bruce's T-shirt from  Raven  was in our mail with a little note from Raven and a copy of his newsletter for us to read.  Bruce has noticed that his  website  hasn't been updated yet to include him as a runner.  Bruce will be listed as "Permission".  It looks like his website hasn't been update since about September 2013 because that was the last time a runner was recorded running with him.  Bruce said that when they were running, Raven talked about how computer illiterate he is and someone else does his website for him.  But he sure does a good job with all his statistics he keeps! Now that we are home, our first meal is soup. I made one of my favorite  vegetable soup  recipes and added chopped up chicken breast and some noodles so it was more like chicken noodle vegetable soup. I used these Chinese Egg Noodles and it made for a delicious chicken noodle soup. The next ni...

Here he comes.  Can you see him?   Today, there are 3 others running with South Beach's native, nicknamed the Raven.  Raven has run this 8 mile jog everyday for the past 39 years and is keeping his streak alive at age 63. On this evening, Raven has a newcomer joining him that Raven has nicknamed Permission.  Raven nicknames all this running-friends who join him, all 1,942 of them over the 39 years of his streak. Close Call is running tonight, one of the Raven's regulars along with Poutine, another regular that Raven nicknamed because she has many French-Canadian friends who eat poutine but now she has given it up in her attempts to be healthy. I wrote about poutine when we visited the  Skillet Diner , a good thing she has given it up.  Close Call got his name because he worked in the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001 but had called in sick because of a bad case of food poisoning from the weekend before. ...