Shannon Costello

Saturday, February 16, 2008- 1:02:57 (steep hills)
August 2009 1:11:22 (trail run- steep hills, river crossings)
Monday, July 4, 2011 59:03.1  (hot, some hills)
I haven’t run enough 10Ks to really compare, but it is nice to have a time under 1 hour.  I think the sprinklers, though delightful, were distracting- one finds one’s self zig-zagging on the [...]

Your article is thought-provoking which is one of my favorite kinds of writing. You are obviously an accomplished writer, and if not, you should be.

Wow!  This is the best book of them all.  I’m thinking of little things like how Laura doesn’t say that Grace never stops asking questions, but there is a whole page of a conversation between Grace and Pa where Grace scarcely says anything other than, “Why, Pa?”
More good food here.  I am sooo hungry.
There are [...]

was in November.  After a couple years of being intrigued, I finally went ahead and did it- 50,000 words in 30 days- the length of a short novel.  It was both harder than I thought- who wants to write when one can read!- and easier, since I’m a wordy sort of person.
I’m guessing there were [...]

We all growl like bears

I met my summer goal of catching a frog in a most satisfyingly spectacular way- with a bull-frog.
My previous land-based attempts were utter failures, but he was not expecting a water attack. I knew I liked kayaking.
He was delightfully slimy with big bulbous eyes that would sort of sink into his head if he felt [...]

CJ is an SU fan, which is fine with me- I get a kick out of watching the games.
There is a player who is the unofficial leader of the team. He is not necessarily known for scoring tons of points, but he is great at things like passing to the guy who [...]

I took the bottle out of the pantry to oil the parchment paper for the pizza and now the cap is gone.
I moved the bread machine and the knife block and everything else.  I searched the smelly depths of the trashcan- twice. I even got down on the floor and looked at the counters at [...]