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Nov 22, 2015

Running is a drug

I stood with one elbow resting on the bar, circling the straw around the ice in my gin and tonic and taking what I hoped looked like non-desperate sips. Was it obvious that I didn’t know anyone in the crowd I was scanning? How to look alone without looking lonely?

Katie Williams in MUGS

Jan 15, 2014

Frankly my dear…

I was miraculously not hung over when I woke up on Saturday morning but 7:00am was nonetheless surprising and unwelcome. I considered combing my hair and putting on makeup but when I looked in the mirror, I saw Rhett Butler staring back at me. All of the sudden, the words “Frankly my dear, I don’t…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Oct 30, 2014

That’s why they call it hot

Window panes, bottles of mineral water and shaped eyebrows dripped. Three staggered rows of glistening women tried their damndest to keep their inhales and exhales under control, despite the fact that at the front of the room, an olive-skinned man in tiny black yoga shorts was…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Jun 18, 2014

Lucky Charmed Life

Am I the only one who thinks that Lucky Charms is perfectly ratioed? Apparently there are entire businesses and social networks dedicated to the poo-pooing of the TOBs (“toasted oat bits”) and lamenting the tragedy of wasting any oral real estate or chewing energies on something so bland and…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Jun 15, 2015

I don’t speak French, but I am fluent in Charades.

Aziz beckoned me with a tuck of his forehead and downward flick of his fingers. The day before, I had followed someone else making a similar gesture and ended up sitting cross-legged and naked between two bare breasts of a roll-bellied woman…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Jan 5, 2014

Graduation from 2013

Every year when my brother and I were little, my parents and uncles marked our heights on the wall at my grandma’s house. I miss that. I’ve realized most of my New Years resolutions these days are some variation of that ritual — I tell myself I’m going to start filling out annual surveys…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Aug 31, 2015

Wild Camping

In Colorado, camping involves wilderness by definition. To me, as a child of the Rockies, camping means miles of alpine solitude and roasting marshmallows. It means obsessively burying every once-burning log for fear of Smokey The Bear’s fire warnings and storing every crumb of food in…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Jul 27, 2014

The Rebound

I recently went through a breakup. With my running club. We had a good thing going — weekly track workouts followed by cheap beer, weekend getaway long runs in the mountains, the occasional karaoke night, long walks on the beach at sunset… West Valley TC wasn’t just the track club next door. We had…

Katie Williams in MUGS

Oct 14, 2014

Zeigarnikfrustrationitis

Zeigarnikfrustration.

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