Saturday, July 7, 2012

Curling Up with a Book


Hey, all––check out a couple of books that are on my reading list at the moment. Now please excuse me as I go crack the spines on them....


Run On

His feats are impressive, even legendary. At age 57, Marshall Ulrich went 3,063 miles on foot, running about 60 miles a day for 52 days straight, from San Francisco to New York City. He was attempting to break a world record set by a man half his age and ultimately set two new records, completing the third fastest trans-American crossing in history.


You can imagine that being married to a guy so driven and prone to extremes requires a strength of its own, a special brand of emotional endurance. Ulrich's wife not only puts up with this craziness but embraces it as an essential part of him. How? Why? Ulrich wrote about all of this in Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner’s Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America ($16). A central element in the book is a recounting of how Ulrich met his wife, Heather, late in life and how she taught him to love again after great personal tragedy and previous marriages. He credits her not only with helping him to become a better man, but also with being crucial to his completing this epic, record-setting transcontinental run.


Running On Empty is both a gripping love story and an inspirational look into the lives of a couple who have experienced more than most people can comprehend...and who insist that everyone's capable of much more than they may think.


Love Works 

As the divorce rate hovers near an estimated 50 percent in the United States, many blame career stress as a major cause of separations. But somehow some couples grow stronger, especially when they work together. One couple who have worked together for nearly a decade in the stressful world of theater, producing Off-Broadway plays, has decided to share their secrets.


“In part, it is because we work together that our bond has strengthened after 10 years of marriage,” says Jamillah Lamb, co-author along with her husband, David, of Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients to Happily Living & Loving Together (www.acoupleoflambs.com). The Lambs say even couples who aren’t business partners are working together every day; being in any relationship requires negotiating, compromising, and decision-making. A crucial ingredient for any successful marriage is friendship, the Lambs say. Couples need to remember relationships take work; but they can also be a blast of fun, David says. Love is, in part, the acknowledgement and deep appreciation for another human being, Jamillah says. They wrote Perfect Combination to share what they have learned as successful partners in love and in business.

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