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Nonny Bear and the Marathon

Everyone is talking about the marathon. It’s not like I don’t understand why this marathon is exciting. What I don’t understand is why everyone has to talk about the marathon all the time. I mean, aren’t there other, more interesting things to talk about? Like bluebirds, for example. Aren’t they so very blue?

1 min read August 6, 2014

“Hey Nonny!” called my friend Rafi in yeshivah. “Who’s gonna be running you in the marathon?” “I don’t know yet ” I said. “ProbablyGavrielFarber.” I don’t like imposing on people. If someone was going to push my wheelchair all the way to the finish line (because this was a marathon powered by people and not by electric wheelchairs and I was not a cheater!) then it ought to be someone getting paid to do it. Gavriel often has off on Sundays the day of the marathon but I was sure he’d want to come anyway.

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