I went for a ride today in order to test my cold weather outfit and also to return an item to my local Cycle Gear store (pants that are too short, again). The temperature gauge on my bike read 0° Celsius, and according to weatherunderground.com wind was blowing around 5 mph. I took the highway [...]
Espresso and cream at my red kitchen table at 7 pm. I’d say it was going to be “one of those nights” but I don’t actually know what I’m doing tonight. I felt like an espresso, I made an espresso.
Everyone’s home has a center. For me, it’s this red kitchen table. I’ve had it for [...]
What it says.
In a few weeks I’ll be leaving on a three- or four-week long motorcycle tour of the Southeast United States. Much of what I’m doing these days consists of obsessing over the details of trip, wondering aloud what on earth I’ve gotten myself into, and working my way through a pile of books (previously photographed) [...]
Lately I’ve tried to focus on slow movement. Not as in ‘the slow food movement’, but literally slowing down, stopping to look, smell the flowers, whatnot. This began as a exercise in strengthening my powers of observation, which have deteriorated over the years. I used to be quite good at catching the fine detail of [...]
New Year’s Eve.
In which we raise glasses to ourselves and our friends, cheering the arrival of a new year, which we are sure will be better than the last, laughing heartily at the jokes we make at our own expense while eating toast points and caviar, and the municipality sets the river on fire at [...]
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