(Part 1 is here) Imagine a world… a world in which you get to finish a thought. Several thoughts. A world in which your day doesn’t start out with a bombardment of finding out who wants what via email, doesn’t have multiple people during the day asking you, “Can I ask you a question?”, and [...]

I finally succumbed and bought a pair of these. After I made fun of Will (who also has a pair) for about 3 weeks, of course, and also banned them from the office, since they make you look like a complete DORK. Actually, this photo makes me a little dizzy — I could have probably [...]

Remember the kids from Team Marlene back in 2004? Those special-needs kids that pulled together and created their own charity ride, with some of them borrowing bikes, having never ridden even 5 miles before? I just got friended on Facebook by one of the girls, who is in high school now. I had especially connected [...]

We’re such predictable beings. We go along, hum-drum, during our day, and we know how things are going to go — how the traffic will be, how the people in our life will be, what we’re having for dinner. And then something bizarre happens and you realize that maybe, just maybe, you don’t know jack. [...]

I just saw this article in the NY Times about a guy who rescued someone who fell into the subway tracks (a DIFFERENT rescue than this one, which was possibly even more amazing)(and it makes me wonder how I survived growing up in NYC ;-) ) and it reminds me of how we so often [...]

(Read PART ONE and PART TWO HERE) Just in case it wasn’t enough to have inspired these kids, it turns out that I flapped my mouth and made a couple of off-hand comments separately to Mary, the teacher, and to David, my cycling friend, who knew Mary in college (and now it was 30 years [...]

(This is an amazing story about a group of kids who rose above their challenges to make a difference for people they didn’t even know. Read Part 1) As I watched the kids get on their bikes and start to pedal up the side of the road, it became very clear to me that this [...]

Right after I rode my bike across the country, a remarkable thing happened. While I had ridden my bike simply initially for myself and to remember my friend Lori, it turned into an epic tale involving a classroom of special-ed 5th graders, and two people falling in love. (all names have been changed). As I [...]