Rick Smith

On Sunday I completed the Big Sur International Marathon in California. After the race, I was lucky enough to bump into Jesus Carlos, the winner of the race. We shared race times (his – 2:20, mine – 5:54), talked about the spectators and marveled at the amazing scenery ...

I am running the Big Sur marathon in May to raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. If you can, please make a tax-deductible donation to my campaign at this link. Thank you! Back in October, I jokingly commented to my family that I was going to sign up to ...

I want to go to Maine with the family for the summer. Well, actually, I don’t really want to go to Maine. I just want to be one of those people who go to Maine for the summer. It’s February, the time of year where we always plan our ...

Procrasturbation. noun. prə-ˈkras-tər-ˌbā-shən -When delaying the performance of a task feels so good, it results in… euphoria. Why does procrastination feel SOOOO good? We are stressed about a task. There is uncertainty in the outcome and we creatively come up with a perfectly good excuse to postpone what we do ...

The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. My contributions (for not so common words): Assmosis: A process by which people absorb success and achievement by kissing up rather than truly earning ...

The happiness movement is dying, and I say it’s about time. 9-11 ushered us fearfully into a brave new world. The great recession caused us to question even the most fundamental rules of economics, not to mention the rules by which we live our lives. Our reaction was to sit ...