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So here’s my deep, dark secret…I’m addicted to bread. I used to have very clear and not overly sympathetic ideas about people who struggled with smoking, overeating, and every other kind of addiction going, and then I realized I had my own. I run (well, I’m starting up again after being sidelined for a couple of months) and I workout and am in pretty good shape. I suspect I’m addicted to running, but that one isn’t likely to kill me…just cause injury. The bread one is scarier. I don’t think I’ve gone a day without bread in, well, years. Toast in the morning, sandwich at lunch, some kind of roll at dinner, and if not that, definitely carbs in the form of potatoes. Now that I’m getting back to my running (and oh what a glorious feeling it is!) I want to use the opportunity to tackle my eating habits, too, and I’ve decided to target bread and carbs. My girlfriend is a very healthy eater and has been a big help in both setting an example and offering me sound advice. Now I want to step it up a notch and see if any of you have kicked this habit, and if so, find out how you did it.

As I write this I’ve been eating a toasted English muffin. Help me!

I was in DC earlier this week with my girlfriend as she was there attending the Romance Writers of America conference. After some thought we decided to visit the Holocaust museum on the Mall. Our concern was that the museum would be overwhelming, and it was. The degree of inhumanity on display is truly staggering. So much so that at times I found myself questioning how such a horror could have been perpetrated when I knew full well it had. I’ve read chilling accounts by Christopher Browning in Ordinary Men, and others by Omar Bartov, Hannah Arendt, Eli Wiesel, and even the controversial thesis put forward by Daniel Goldhagen in Hitler’s Willing Executioners, and still it didn’t fully register. The enormity of the loss is beyond comprehension, and the museum has worked hard to counter this by focusing on specific aspects to both humanize and give a sense of scale to what is otherwise seemingly infinite suffering.

Should you visit DC and you’re up to the challenge, I would urge you to visit and see for yourself: http://www.ushmm.org/

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2009/07/charles-n-brown-1937-2009.html

My mother just called and gave me the news – Tim Hortons, the donut/doughnut and coffee chain that basically runs Canada is opening 13 stores in Manhattan! Next to finding proof of extraterrestrial life in the universe this is AMAZING. I’d write more, but I have to wipe off the drool from my keyboard 🙂

So many of you know that I’m a runner, and that I managed to injure myself a while back. It’s been a long and very slow recovery, but I’m starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. I’ve been going to physical therapy a couple times a week, taking NSAIDs, and not running (which has been the hardest thing to do, er, not do). The good news in all of this is that I’ve been spending more time researching the third book in the series. Now that my notes are taken and the writing has begun, however, I’m ready to run again and tap into those endorphins.