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It’s Not About the Bike

I hope Lance Armstrong doesn’t mind me sharing the title of his book for this blog entry. After all, he and I have a few things in common. For example, we will be riding our bikes on the same day and in the same easterly direction. Alas, I was never a competitive cyclist. And, Darryle […]

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A site for sore thighs

  This is me and my girlfriend, Carla, in Berkeley, circa 1970, with my first 10 speed. The bike weighed more than her. Because of the wind resistance caused by my hair, and the weight of the bike, top speed was about 8 mph.       This is me many years later, belying the […]

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riding and writing

Before I leave for Chicago and points beyond,  I’ll be doing some traveling starting tomorrow.  And you’ll be coming along— with a team of bike riders on a long distance trip. It’s not the Tour de France; it’s the Great Annual Bike Ride Across Iowa—held to raise awareness and funds for a charity fighting diseases that […]

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BlogHer 0-9 : crossing the line

Hopefully you’ve already read Part 1–what happened last year. All the way to San Francisco for nothing.  Nothing from Neiman Marcus.   Not even a totebag from BlogHer ’08.    I did get one thing from the experience—a  name.   Jane Gassner was moderating a session  I couldn’t attend—but  at least I understood the words on the program:  Blogging in Mid-Life.  This […]

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BlogHer ‘0-8: Accepting my fate

 Last summer,  signs from the universe were pointing me towards the blogosphere.    I listened—  July 4, 2008,  I started a blog-–this one.   Less than 2 weeks into blogging, I got another sign– and this is what I wrote:  July 19, 2008: I just learned that there is a popular website called BlogHer, having its annual […]

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Summer Sun-day

People think I’m crazy.  But I love the fog.  Which is lucky since that’s what we get most of the time around here. The sun is glorious too– when it decides to come out.   Like it did today–when it seemed as if everyone on the Monterey Peninsula was at Carmel beach. (PS –those are surfers […]

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