Author: Max Langert

This thing happened over the weekend. Doesn’t quite feel real. Flew up to Albany, met up with some old and new work friends, ran a mess of miles in a beautiful place. I loved it, feel like I have these great lasting memories of bonding slowly over a few days, getting worn out, running...

Well, I’ve been thinking about this place since February 22nd… At the end of the walk this morning, a couple of hundred yards from the rental car place, I discovered a new brewery I’d never heard of before. I’m going to make a plan to check it out. Today a friend was doing a...

I’ve been thinking about the movie Carrington lately. It came out over 20 years ago and stars Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce, about the shared lives of painter Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey. I’d never heard of either real-life artist before seeing the film. My dad recommended it to me recently which is...

Well, maybe Phuket, actually. A friend of mine does computer consulting work in Thailand and is trying to open a bike rental shop. He’s invited me over to check the place out, maybe do some work on getting things up and running. Things seem to be lining up okay for me to do it....

It’s done. I survived. Still digesting the event and what it means to me. My favorite part of it was probably the team camaraderie. Spending almost 40 hours in tight quarters with five dedicated runners (Bruce, Matt, Kamille, Kate & Tom) was like a condensed camping experience. I only knew one of them (Tom)...

Sometimes I have unusual dreams—as we all do—and they can stick with me in a creepy, nightmarish way. But other times, people tell me about their dreams that have me in them, and I enjoy those so much more. Here’s one a writer friend sent me last week. There’s something comic book-y about it...

I just got done spending a week or so traveling around with my kids and dad in the northwest. Along the way, my dad was reading a terrific book of collected essays by Paul Theroux (a prolific travel writer I’m sort of embarrassed to say I hadn’t heard of before). As we got accustomed...