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May 20, 2012 New town, new sites (RVA edition)

I am making a genuine effort to explore RVA, this new town where I find myself. There are some lovely spots like this one, a coffee shop in Shockhoe Bottom on a crisp Saturday morning yesterday. That’s my coffee cup on the table by the open window. But life is not all coffee shops in [...]

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September 18, 2011 Sunday morning praise for Ernest

Always loved Hemingway. Not enough people actually read his words. For those who don’t, his death overshadows his life, and his life overshadows his writing. Anyway, this is an epigraph in the front of a very fine Sarah Vowell book. If you haven’t already, you should read her too.

September 16, 2011 Adjusting to the new bike

Last month, after saving for a long time and months of indecision, I bought myself a new bike. A road bike. I’ve ridden road bikes ever since high school until about 10 years ago, when I ditched my last one, a second-hand twice handed-down silver beauty, for a shiny hybrid Trek. But I never really [...]

June 14, 2011 The corridors of my life

Music for a Tuesday night

May 6, 2011 College: It goes by so fast

In honor of the University of Dayton’s graduation ceremonies this weekend, here’s my editor’s column for the spring issue of University of Dayton Magazine. You can download a PDF of the entire issue here: http://www.udayton.edu/news/publications/udmagazine.php. The bittersweet joy of a happy ending I had, as usual, great seats at UD Arena. Center court, about eight [...]

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February 28, 2011 A driver just plowed through a Critical Mass ride in Brazil, and that worries me

The video speaks for itself. On Friday, a driver plowed through a group bicycle ride in the Porto Alegre, one of Brazil’s 10 largest cities. He later abandoned his car and turned himself into police, claiming he did this in self-defense. Yes, self defense. The local paper reported today that he has a history of [...]

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February 15, 2011 Stir crazy and ready to get biking again

I’ve played with photo manipulation. I’ve crabbed about sports and paused to wonder at Egypt. I’ve held back blogging on silly topics like Lady Gaga and inflicted my worst winter brooding on the real world. OK, maybe Gaga I won’t resist. I don’t know what to make of you, Miss Stephanie. I like the idea [...]

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November 10, 2010 A bike memory (and an early lesson in truth-telling)

In first, second and third grades, I lived on an Air Force base in Rome, N.Y. Winters were fun and snowy, summers full of roaming the neighborhood — and I had a sweet bike. The bike was black, I remember, and it had some red flame decals on it. I rode it all over when [...]

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October 3, 2010 Getting away from the to-do list on a lazy Sunday morning

I’m watching people be very unreasonable with each other on a Sunday morning news program. Should a mosque be allowed in lower Manhattan? This is tiresome. But it has been a nice fall morning, one so chilly we turned on the furnace for the first time, “just to be sure it still works,” we said. [...]

September 30, 2010 Winter commute: Are warm toes the key?

Like this guy, I’m trying to figure out how to do the winter commute as the temperature drops. I prefer to avoid spending crazy money on high tech mountain gear.

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