Why I'm running the NYC marathon and how you can help

Annie gave me The Look that I've become all too familiar with…

You're doing what?

I saw it after college when I moved to Key West. I saw it when I told her about my plan to go to Bangladesh because my underwear was made there.

She had just returned from a full day of work and was smartly clad in her office attire. I was still in my writer's uniform: shorts, ratty T-shirt, and barefoot.  I looked like her jobless, thirty-something, live-in mooch.

"I've committed to running the NYC marathon and raisin