I have lived and worked around these parts for 27 years now and have yet to run the Crim ten-mile road race, through no fault of my own. The first year, I was all trained up and ready to go when, WHAM! I came down with a bout of I Can’t Get Up That Early-itis.

I was at a restaurant up north recently when someone asked “the questions.” Everyone who lives in or around Flint these days knows what the questions are and dreads them, because we’ve answered them a million times. “Where you from?” the man asked. I was tempted to lie and say I live in Kentucky. Or