"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in biking, Distractions, Loss & Grief & A Hole In My Soul, Notions and Rants on May 30th, 2017
What is your blade? What is your red-hot match head? What mortifies your flesh to alleviate your spirit?
What reinforces your humanity in all its profanity?
Posted in biking, Delight, Family, Parenthood on Mar 13th, 2014
So, that tiny little scrap of humanity they allowed me to bring home from KU Med Center back on July 13 is now 26″ long and 16lbs, 4 oz. Quite a bit of progress from his starting stats of 17.5″ and 4lb, 14 oz. What Joseph likes is: his feet, being carried around, sitting up […]
Posted in biking, Other Bike Stuff, Up The Pole on May 6th, 2013
Here I am, at 26 weeks, which is nearly done with the second trimester, or for people who are not up on all the pregnancy lingo shit, around six months along. I am now noticeably pregnant. People ask me when the baby’s due. He keeps up a fairly steady and vigorous march upon my bladder, […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Costumes and disguises, Delight, Party, Schwinn Debutante on Apr 15th, 2012
I own a 1953 Schwinn Debutante, a bicycle which is delightfully pretty and gloriously impractical: This is not a bicycle you ride if you are in a hurry. I’ve wheeled it out for two special occasions so far this year. It was a belle of the ball on St. Patrick’s Day. To go with my […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 12th, 2011
I took Ruby running in a shipping container wareyard today. She enjoyed splashing through the puddles and searching for rats, and I enjoyed the disorienting scenery. It felt like I was cavorting in a giant’s LEGO village. This looks like a tight fit, but I could easily ride my bicycle through this passageway. It is […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Distractions, Other Bike Stuff, Ruby the Dog, Sewing, Super-Short Entries, Well I'll Be Darned on Nov 5th, 2011
Juniper Berry sachet, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. While running the dog, I found a bunch of windfall juniper berries today, so I completely filled my jacket pockets and made several juniper-berry sachets. I put this one in my lingerie drawer, ’cause delicates that smell of G&T are never the wrong answer.
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, biking, Distractions, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Aug 2nd, 2011
On Saturday, I found myself among friends, hanging around behind an abandoned industrial building. Some folks were drinking beers; all of us were talking shit. Because that’s what we do. Shoot the bull, drink beer, and hang around debris-strewn alleyways behind abandoned buildings. We’re classy n’ shit. Any old how, I wasn’t drinking beer because […]
Posted in biking, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Mountain Biking, Trek 800 on Jun 13th, 2011
Direct quote from a kid who’d stopped by Friz tonight to spectate. We were taking a break and chatting with the newcomer who’d voiced interest in the game. He was riding an IRO fixie, which would have been supremely difficult (if not somewhat dangerous) to try to play Friz on. So various among us were […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Photo entries, Playing With Weather on Jun 8th, 2011
So…another Dirty Kanza 200 has come and gone, and I was on hand as a helper-varmint again, though this time as support crew for Joel and Wade. Which meant driving Joel’s pickup from one tiny Kansas town to another, with a 5-gallon water cooler in the back (as well as a cooler of food and […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Food & Snacks, Garden, Ruby the Dog on May 30th, 2011
I went on a dual-purpose ride today. First objective was to give the dog a run: Second objective was to scavenge up as many ripe mulberries as I could: I made an scouting trip yesterday with the dog, and just snacked on mulberries as I find them, but made plans to come back again…with tupperware! […]