Author Archives: paulefallon

About paulefallon

Greetings reader. I am a writer, architect, cyclist and father from Cambridge, MA. My primary blog, theawkwardpose.com is an archive of all my published writing. The title refers to a sequence of three yoga positions that increase focus and build strength by shifting the body’s center of gravity. The objective is balance without stability. My writing addresses opposing tension in our world, and my attempt to find balance through understanding that opposition. During 2015-2106 I am cycling through all 48 mainland United States and asking the question "How will we live tomorrow?" That journey is chronicled in a dedicated blog, www.howwillwelivetomorrw.com, that includes personal writing related to my adventure as well as others' responses to my question. Thank you for visiting.

Call Me White

Posted on 01/30/2018 by paulefallon

I stayed awake for three days straight during senior year fraternity rush. All day socializing with prospective members, late night parties back in the halcyon days of age 18 alcohol, topped by after-hour meetings deciding which guys to offer a … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged 1976, black vs. white, fraternity rush, racism, white privilege | 5 Comments

Yet Another Bastion of Privilege: The Chaste Mouth

Posted on 01/23/2018 by paulefallon

To be a white man in 2018 is to find yourself dug daily into ever deeper depths of Dante Inferno-like privilege. I recently learned of an entirely new arena in which my behavior supposedly reflects my precipice status: I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged cursing, Donald Trump, Emma Byrne, New Yorker, white privilege | Leave a comment

Entertainment Tonight … and Tomorrow … and the Day After That

Posted on 01/16/2018 by paulefallon

It’s inauguration anniversary week—one year since Donald Trump took the Oath of Office. Many will pen commentaries on whatever good or ill our President has delivered. I fall square in the camp that believes Donald’s a bully who’s diminished our … Continue reading →

Posted in United States | Tagged democracy, Donald Trump. 2016 election | Leave a comment

Rules of The Road

Posted on 01/09/2018 by paulefallon

Everybody loves a guy on a bike. Except when you’re driving alongside one. Then you just want that bicycle gone. As a man who cycles for primary transport, with a track record of pedaling pretty far, automobile drivers often pinhole … Continue reading →

Posted in Bicycling | Tagged bicycle right-of-way, bicycles, bicycles and cars, rules of the road, urban cyclling | Leave a comment

Case Studies in Sexual Harassment

Posted on 01/02/2018 by paulefallon

When I first heard about Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey and Charlie Rose, about men with loose bathrobes and wandering hands who force penetration, I figured it was just another example of me being a stranger in this strange land. … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged Matt Damon, sexual harassment | 1 Comment

My Life: Played Out on Broadway

Posted on 12/26/2017 by paulefallon

2017. A lump rises in my throat as my eyes lift to behold Dolly Levi, at the top of the grand stairway at Harmonia Gardens. The audience bursts with applause. Dolly descends in her signature red dress and feather … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Chorus Line, AIDS, Bette Midler, Broadway, Fiddler on the Roof, gay, Hello Dolly, New York City, NYC, Susan Stroman | 10 Comments

Winter is Coming

Posted on 12/19/2017 by paulefallon

In the Bicentennial year of 1976, my Sociology professor proclaimed, “The United States won’t have a revolution; you can’t have a revolution in a country where 70% of the people are satisfied.” His statistical construct may be correct. What’s … Continue reading →

Posted in How Will We Live Tomorrow?, United States | Tagged Game of Thrones, Newton's Third Law, revolution, United States, winter | 2 Comments

How Will We Live Tomorrow? – Geek Edition

Posted on 06/19/2017 by paulefallon

The MIT Reunion Committee asked me talk about my bicycle trip at a TIM Talk (TIM = MIT backwards. Same Same but different from TED Talk. Get it?) I took a rather math/physics angle on my trip for the fifteen … Continue reading →

Posted in How Will We Live Tomorrow? | 4 Comments

Everything Wrong with this Country in a Year, a Week, and a Day

Posted on 04/06/2017 by paulefallon

A year, a week, and a day after Leap Day of 2016 I received a large check in the mail. How this came to pass is not the ten-second story of a hot-heated bully. Rather it demonstrates the high cost … Continue reading →

Posted in How Will We Live Tomorrow? | Tagged Alabama Bicycle Coalition, Atrius Health, Cincinnati Insurance, Clovis Public Library, Conor McBride, Corliss and Carl Thorn, Evan Wilhelm, Ferguson MO, Firends of the Clovis-Carter Library, Florida Restorative Justice Association, Havard Vanguard, I Heart Ferguson, Julie McBride, Kate Grosmaire, Lewis Feldman & Lehane, Library Endowment Trust OKC, Linda Lipka, Metropolitan Library of OKC, Myrna Loy Center, Racine Police Association, Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola FL, The Circus Project, The Right Question Institute, The Unusual Suspects, Thomas Hospital Fairhope AL, warmshowers, Wesley Bell | 11 Comments

Everything Wrong with this Country in Ten Seconds or Less

Posted on 04/03/2017 by paulefallon

I came upon a most perfect example of civic disintegration today. Perfect not just because it exemplifies the brazen meanness of people with power, but also because the incident is so inconsequential, the only reason it could possibly occur is … Continue reading →

Posted in United States | Tagged bike path, Cambridge | 5 Comments