Entries Tagged as 'glimmers'

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Get Up, Get Up, Get On It

Do you feel that?
It’s a lull.  It’s a big-assed lull.
It’s like the holidays hit and then passed and then dried up and now we’re here with this wind and that flooding.
I wake up in the middle of the night and there is a bar room brawl in the tree branches above me.  Violent.  This weather […]

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

World Domination From a Hot-Pink Banana Seat: Christmas in 1985

My last column for 2008 will run in tomorrow’s Oregonian, but if you don’t get the paper you can check it out online. In it, I begin my quest for world domination, inspired by a bike-accessory I received for Christmas. (It was the motorcylce noismaker that you mounted on the handlebars… did anyone else have […]

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Thank you Thank you and Thank you: From the Gratitude Files

In 1999 I was living in Calcutta, India working for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.  By day I cleaned bed sores and pulled maggots out of open wounds.  I carried skeletal women in my arms and bathed them with my hands. I held the women who came to be my friends and washed their smocks. […]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

No Pedal Wrenches in Your Carry-On Luggage, Lady

At 4:30 in the morning, after 3 hours of sleep, I decided I definitely needed to bring my pedal wrench with me on this trip (surely there are no pedal wrenches in the bay area!).
I want you know know that TSA does not allow heavy 18″ wrenches in carry-on luggage. Who knew?
It was with great […]

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Cross Crusade #7 Race Report: Mud, Whiskey, Mini-Golf

I’m traveling so this has to be quick but the race report from this weekend went up realllly early this morning over at the Wend Blog.

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