I’ve had what an optimist would call mixed success with rolling instruction. Ok for clarification of the data pool I will say that I’ve tried to help twenty or so people with a first roll. Which is not many. But out of those twenty, only two actually rolled while I was helping them. Now I …
Monthly Archive: March 2006
Mar
16
Mar
12
Flotnar 3rd Annual Ice Paddle-1st annual Egg Mcmuffin
This I have to write down, We stopped at McDonalds on the way to South Haven to paddle this morning. I hadn’t been in a Mcdonalds since some time last year. Apparently it is possible to pay for fast food with a credit card now. I was stunned as this was not possible for years, …
Mar
10
The Inner Jack Aubrey
I’ve been reading the Patrick O’Brian Aubrey/Maturin series, of the _Master and Commander Far Side of the World_ movie fame. I can truthfully say I like the movie. Though the story in the film has an incindental if not tangential relationship to the texts it purports to be translated from. But the actual novel, Far …
Mar
10
NRS Desperado
Ordered these today: I’ve had the same pair of chotas for a few years now and they are beginning to look very sorry indeed. They smell terrible too. I could use some wetsuit shampoo on them. But I am lazy. I think the smell is part of the charm. The low cut chotas are pretty …
Mar
09
This Woman
Often there is a question I want to ask. It lays half formed in my mouth like vapour for days. And the answer, I forget sometimes, is waiting for me without even having voiced the question. Laura is the question and the answer. Your Feet When I cannot look at your face I look at …
Mar
05
Top of the Hill
I used to get up early with my father on sunday mornings. He would load my bike in his mazda wagon and we’d drive to downtown Clarkston. We took a circuitous route through some neighborhoods near the mill pond. Why he chose that route I don’t know. I would ride ahead of him most of …
