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Four Years On
Four years ago this month I sat out the afternoon sun in a Mexican cantina in Postville, Iowa, gorging on $6.95 fajitas and scrolling through the websites of the folks running for President. On Flag Day 2016, I asked each … Continue reading
Let’s Put on a Show!
Three years after I began my bicycle odyssey throughout America, the voices of the folks I met took center stage at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at the first public staged reading of my new play, How Will We Live Tomorrow? … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle play, bicycle touring, Plays about America, theater
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Tomorrow Finally Arrives at Amazon
After several months and many snafu’s, the full color, coffee table version of How Will We Live Tomorrow? is available to order through Amazon. I apologize to all who ordered the book back in December, when Amazon named it a … Continue reading
Winter is Coming
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
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Tagged Game of Thrones, Newton's Third Law, revolution, United States, winter
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How Will We Live Tomorrow? – Geek Edition
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
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Everything Wrong with this Country in a Year, a Week, and a Day
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
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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
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Trip Log – Day 397 – Ponte Vedra Beach FL to Jacksonville FL
December 20, 2016 – Overcast, 50 degrees Miles Today: 28 Miles to Date: 20,733 States to Date: 48 I rode into Jacksonville, the United States’ geographically largest city, on a busy Tuesday morning along miles of commercial strip along US … Continue reading
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Trip Log – Day 396 – St Augustine FL to Ponte Vedra Beach FL
December 19, 2016 – Fog, 60 degrees Miles Today: 33 Miles to Date: 20,705 States to Date: 48 Saint Augustine is a lovely town, even on a grey day. The Visitor’s Center gives a good overview of the city’s … Continue reading
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Trip Log – Day 395 – Gainesville FL to St Augustine FL
December 18, 2016 – Clouds, 80 degrees Miles Today: 78 Miles to Date: 20,672 States to Date: 48 Another day of terrific bicycle touring in a state I find much more bike friendly than anticipated. After two hearty bowls … Continue reading
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Trip Log – Day 394 – Gainesville FL
December 17, 2016 – Sun, 80 degrees Miles Today: 10 Miles to Date: 20,594 States to Date: 48 Challenging things have occurred during this journey: gale winds, heavy rain, flat tires; but so far, never all at once. I was … Continue reading
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