June 99

Cat Bird Seat By David Yon As I write this column the end of May and Memorial Day are rolling around. Memorial Day weekend used to be a time when a large number of GWTC people gathered at 300 Ocean mile condos and other assorted places on St. George Island for a beach...

May 99

Cat Bird Seat By David Yon Wow. Some months fly by with lots of good times and you just can’t help smiling. Then there are months where life just bats you around a little bit. Sometimes it picks you up and throws you down hard. It is in those latter...

April 99

Cat Bird Seat By David Yon I have been back on solid ground for a little over a month now. (A little longer than that by the time you read this.) I can tell you one thing, if I could choose between the lobbyists, legislators and lawyers swarming our town now and the...

March 99

Cat Bird Seat By David Yon It was the first time I ever had heard of little guys in tuxedos standing along a race course cheering for runners. But sure enough, as the runners crested hill number 200, there they were standing in a line. They turned their heads and...

February 99

February Cat Bird Seat By David Yon Truly amazing, I would say. Despite the fact that the new Marathon course wound through dozens of neighborhoods and crossed what seemed like thousands of streets, almost every corner had a smiling race volunteer directing runners or...

January 99

January Cat Bird Seat By David Yon Running 50 miles gives one a long time to think. As the quadriceps muscle tissue is ground from sinew to pulp by the thousands or millions of foot strikes on pavement, there is plenty of time to look around and observe just what a...