I’ve made it a habit to do a lot of research regarding candidates and issues before I vote, but occasionally I didn’t have time to look at everything and everyone, so I would defer to the judgment of a political party to fill in the blanks. However, I see more and more how both major political parties are caring more…Continue Reading
Culture
Brethren
Daily, I read news regarding Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination as a Supreme Court justice and I find all of it to be nothing more than a sad bit of finger pointing, rather than a constructive vetting process. Congress and seemingly everyone else, is too busy using his nomination process to divide and demonize each other leaving no one to seriously look at Kavanaugh the…Continue Reading
Sans Food Cycling
I once wrote a post about “riding while fat” because to one degree or another I’ve allowed myself to be too heavy for at least the last 20+ years of my life while all the time, still enjoying getting out on a bike. Even fat, exercising kept the devil at bay for awhile. Eventually though, as I have gotten…Continue Reading
Head and Heart
I read this KGMI post on Facebook today. The post mentions a claim that President Trump is housing children in concentration camps and says that Rick Larsen will speak about how families belong together at a local protest. I found this “news” item by KGMI to be both divisive and dehumanizing towards our President and in turn the roughly half…Continue Reading
The Way I Do Galbraith
This is the way I do Galbraith. Push, Pull, Drag and lately riding up Galbraith Lane up to the towers to get a good workout. Then pick a trail and enjoy the ride down because it was earned on the way up. I’m not up there to fly through the air off some downhill ramp, I’d much rather take a…Continue Reading
Adaptive Cycle Expo 2018
Bikes and mechanical things are part of my comfort zone and, to be real, people with disabilities are usually way out of my comfort zone. So why volunteer for this type of event? Because comfort or no comfort, in my gut it seemed like the right thing to do and it also involves bikes (of sorts). I also knew that people…Continue Reading