The Youth Brigade

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]