As of this afternoon’s eight miler around the neighborhood, I’ve passed five hundred(!) bicycling miles this summer (which I’m measuring from roughly Memorial Day), just in time for “summer” to come to an end for Labor Day. To celebrate, please have Zooey bathed and brought to my tent. <smirk> Really, though, to celebrate, I’m going [...]

Okay, now officially more than half-way through my thirties, such as it is. As usual, I don’t feel particularly different. Sure, from a purely physical standpoint, there are a few pounds less of me than there were last year (and that’s generally a good thing), but otherwise, nothing significant. Thirty-six, besides being a prime number*, [...]

Happy Birthday, kid!

I’ve been doing a lot of heavy writing about VERY IMPORTANT THINGS™ in the social and political arenas lately, so today I’m simply going to make mention of a few of the little things that don’t necessarily have earth-shattering importance. This weekend, for example, I finally stumbled upon the missing element to cooking so-called “authentic” [...]

Earlier this week, through the magic of fark, my attention was drawn to an article in the Harrisburg Patriot-News (which, at one point in my life, might have been considered my “hometown” paper) about protests at a Potter County PA library over the screening of a documentary dealing with the gay experience in rural America [...]

According to this article, one in five people have vivid memories of things that never actually happened, and those false memories are just as instrumental in defining who a person is as real ones. Makes you wonder about pretty much everything, doesn’t it? Also, it potentially explains a lot about how we view the world [...]

According to yet another reported survey, romantic comedy films mess up people’s relationships (Sorry for the blinky over-advertised link destination) by encouraging unrealistic expectations about what “love” is supposed to be. For some people, this causes much distress when their real-life relationships don’t live up to the storybook perfection presented on the page or the [...]

So, twelve years. I’ll take it. I shall always be eternally grateful my best friend agreed to this arrangement so many years ago, and that she continues to put up with me and all my quirks. Especially those quirks that cropped up this year. Not much else to say, really, except “thanks.” And this little [...]

We started Saturday with a nice family bike ride to the local farmer’s market to pick up some fresh vegetables – eggplant, sweet corn, basil, and a couple of other bits. Led to some good meals for the weekend, though next time, with the eggplant, i’m going to season italian, but cook asian. A little [...]

A couple of weeks back, I wrote a little bit about “embracing the awesome”, as mentioned by one of my favorite internet people, author Carrie Vaughn. In her piece, she talks a little bit about “impostor syndrome”; the feeling a lot of us have on occasion where we feel like frauds in areas where we’re [...]