sometimes i think -- and write -- best directly after a run. i used to run in the woods with a pen and a piece of paper stuffed in my jog bra. whenever the moment of clarity came, i was prepared. now i just talk and talk and talk out my argument as i go. my good old mutt arlo listens patiently and then gets bored and chases squirrels. like walt whitman, i suppose, i believe in kinesthetic learning. i believe in it less as a mainstream pedagogical model (do we really need 7th graders acting out algebra?), but i think many of us do our best thinking on the move.