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If you had to pick one word to guide your way through 2018, what word would you choose?

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Kiliii Yuyan grew up in the United States, the son of Han Chinese immigrants. His parents both ambitiously took themselves off to medical school, leaving Kiliii and his brother often in the care of his grandmother, who told him stories and gently introduced him to his indigenous self, without him even realizing. She was Nanai, … Continue reading If you had to pick one word to guide your way through 2018, what word would you choose?

The Year I Won at the Portland Marathon

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This was the year it all came together just right. I knew what the marathon distance felt like, I’d run the course before and I had committed solidly to training. My running buddies and I had covered the distance and then some. I was forty and had three marathons under my belt. It seemed like … Continue reading The Year I Won at the Portland Marathon