Marc Gilbert

Since my last post a week ago, a lot has changed again and I am honestly a bit overwhelmed with everything that has come to pass, especially as we close in on the final handful of hours left before what was one of my biggest goals this year: running the B…

This week has been a pretty variable one.

I spent the last few days trying to find something very specific in many, many antique stores here in Siena, and hours of traversing the town on Wednesday returned absolutely naught.

Read a book, go for a run, write, reflect.

…at both ends and seemingly for far too long beyond what my body deemed acceptable, and thus, I became sick this week.

I’ve been on a bender lately of reading books about gender, specifically a lot on the experience of women in society, and it’s radicalising me in the best way possible.

This week was intense, more intense than expected, but as I sit and write this blog, birds chirping, trains running by on the tracks outside the apartment of my friend's place where I am staying; I feel a sense of calm that comes from knowing there's so m…

I love climbing and bouldering.

Did I ever tell you of the time I broke my little toe?

These past weeks have been a lot.

Well, coming into today's session, I immediately noticed that after a long two weeks of a lot of upheaval, writing for myself every day, and training for this god damn marathon more than I have ever trained for anything in my life; that I had approximately

It's been a month now of writing (almost) every day and with it has come some interesting, if rather subtle, changes.

It really hasn't been that long since my last update on not drinking alcohol this year, but this week I hit the six-month milestone and I wanted to reflect a bit on this achievement as I felt a lot more strongly than I had expected to, and these days, aft…