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Ghost Bikes and the Empty Promise of Bike to Work Day
Brian “Buzz” Climis was one of 35,000 people killed on U.S. roadways in 2015. Fifty five years old, Climis was a cyclist who commuted 14 miles a day from his home in Ansonia, Connecticut to his job in … Continue reading
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Trump, Ali and the Art of Trash Talking
What Muhammad Ali did for sportsmanship, Donald Trump is doing for political civility. Ali delighted in humiliating his opponents, not least the estimable Joe Frazier; Trump dumped on Little Marco, Lyin’ Ted, and Low-Energy Jeb. Ali claimed to be “the … Continue reading
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One Pull-up
There aren’t many things I can do better today than I could at seventeen. Crossword puzzles are one. Pull-ups are another. Okay, I have only been able to complete one pull-up at any one time since I started going to … Continue reading
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Bridging the GAP
These are the chronicles of Mike and Matt, father and son, cycling the Great Allegheny Passage as it meanders 150 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cumberland, Maryland. Along the way, Matt and I pass over 20-30 bridges and through several … Continue reading
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Patience
(If I had my own IT department, I might have posted more by now.) If patience is a virtue, then I suppose it follows that one cannot have too much of it. As someone traveling the wrong way down the … Continue reading
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