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Two wheelin’ (the hard way)
A friend lent me two hard science fiction novels, one sword & sorcery fantasy novel, and one Arthurian romance. I thought I’d enjoy the hard sci-fi (and I do) but her brand new paperbacks are in such perfect condition I’m afraid to open the pages wide enough to read because I’ll crease the books’ spines […]
… but I am, these days, a little more down than up. Particularly over the union-busting going on in so many states, and peoples’ refusal to see what lies behind it. Republican governors and Republican-dominated state legislatures aren’t trying to save money by busting public employee unions and cutting back on education and services funding. […]
My sisters and I grew up in a non-Mardi Gras home: Mom, like all Southern Baptists, observed Lent the whole year round; Dad, an agnostic, pretty much did whatever he wanted to do regardless of the time of year. I married a Catholic girl, but Mardi Gras wasn’t part of her family’s tradition either. Oh, […]
Someone spilled paint on the highway leading to our house and my poor daughter, driving home in the dark, didn’t see it in time to avoid it. The result was brown paint all down the left side of my car. Fortunately it proved to be latex and Polly was able, with elbow grease and a […]
Two days under the weather. Diarrhea, vomiting . . . yuck, who wants to hear about that? TMI! TMI! I only mention it because I’m so damn happy it’s over. At last, I can get back to stressing over more important things than the distance to the nearest bathroom. Things like Christmas. I sent out […]
The other day I blogged about an unpleasant encounter with an enraged, bicycle-hating motorist. That very night, I learned about the Morgan Stanley money manager who ran over a bicyclist and then fled the scene, leaving his victim for dead. You know, the Morgan Stanley money manager the local district attorney decided not to prosecute […]
We went for a bicycle ride this morning with other members of our Trail Trash riding group. Along the way I had an unpleasant encounter with a motorist. Did it really spoil the ride? No, but it was shocking to me to realize how much some folks hate bicyclists. We were riding south toward the […]
It has been a while since I’ve photoblogged a bicycle ride. Let’s do something about that, shall we? We have our own bicycling group, the Spanish Trail Trash. This morning’s ride consisted of the Trail Trash core: Mary Anne (our leader), Darrell, Donna, and me. We met by the Rillito bike path at Campbell and […]