We sat out on his old wooden porch A tongue lapping shade from the day, This hot desert day dissolving like shimmering rain All around us, but we didn’t mind. We held our coffee cups, squinting At the brilliant white adobe house across the street And we talked as if old friends, This man, his […]
I rounded the S-curve on Vermont Highway 119 into Montgomery Center, (population 845) Sylvester’s Market dead ahead. I was looking for “The Inn” where my wife and I would be attending a wedding the following day. My eyes swept past a pizza place, then quickly across the street to . . . a bicycle shop! […]
A Bicycling Odyssey Reminiscence Because it’s August — not August, 1993, but August, 2021 — it seems like a good enough time to tell the story of my greatest adventure astride a bicycle. This story was originally published in The Ride Magazine by Editor and Publisher Karen Haas, and remains one of my favorite pieces […]
Innovator Daniel Chu Wants to Create a Real “Spinner” Can fiction become real? In Bridge Across the Ocean, Jack B. Rochester imagined The Spinner, a compact high-tech bicycle drive which produces and stores its own energy from pedaling. Pragmatc Innovation, a product development consultancy in Somerville, Massachusetts, certainly thinks it’s possible. After all, the communications […]
We’re having an extraordinarily mild summer here in New England: low temperatures and humidity, really fine weather if you don’t mind didging the more occasional rain. Today was about as perfect for a bike ride as it ever gets here, so my wife and I took advantage of it to get the big wheels of […]
I went to the movies last night after an 18-month abstinence. We have a small indie theater in my town that reopened to premier “Roadrunner,” a biopic about Anthony Bourdain. It was pretty cool to see Ken, the manager, get a bag of popcorn and a Diet Coke, chat with him and the counter clerk […]
A few years ago, my car was crashed into by another driver. The term used in the documentation and reports: an accident. The driver of the other car called it a mistake (in his case perhaps a mistake in judgment). Being a wordsmith, I immediately saw the enormous difference between the terms accident and mistake. […]