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 [...]

I kind of flipped out yesterday and threw out all of my pens. Not actually ALL of them, but all of the ones that I hated — you know, the ones that don’t write immediately, and you’re sitting there scratching at the paper, and then you lick the tip in the hopes that that helps [...]

It’s been a hell of a week. Actually, it’s been building for a while, but now we’re in the thick of things and that explains why I’m a little behind on posting. It all started with the tiny little decision (don’t these things always start with just a small thought?) that we would upgrade our [...]

I’ll actually say this in public — I got on a bike today for the first time in over a year. Yes, that’s right, I haven’t sat on a bicycle seat since the summer before last and even then, it was a bit of an effort. And then a couple of months after that, I [...]

So last week, some lunatic decided to make us all just a little more paranoid by trying to blow up a plane landing in Detroit. Just like the Shoe Bomber back in 2001, what we’re left with is the experience of more and more indignities, inconveniences and outright annoyances imposed on travelers so that we’ll [...]