“Legacy media” is a nice phrase that one sees employed as a euphemism for what would otherwise be described as “old media.” It affords you a certain air of dignity, should dignity be something you want as a member of the “old” media that predates digital-social-mobile media (“new”). Some…

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Ramps recently have begun to appear at the green market in Union Square. The arrival of ramps is always a quietly exhilarating, quickening moment for me, and as a rule I don’t experience many quietly exhilarating quickenings. This is the surest, truest sign that spring has arrived. Even through days as unseasonably cool as these have been, I can tell…

After years of running to music, I recently began running without it. Now I find I probably should never have been listening to music at all, at any rate not while running.

Without headphones, without an iPhone or iPod, I listen to my lungs and their rise and…