Okay, I cheated. This picture is actually from last summer, from the North Portland Sunday Parkways. But the sunny (albeit cold) weather lately has me dreaming of nice-day, rambling rides all over town. I’ll admit I’ve taken a few long rides this week just for the sheer joy of being …
A great article from The Onion: Department of Health and Human Services Recommends Standing at Least Once a Day. Alas, as ridiculous as that article is–like any Onion article, I guess–you know it’s only funny because there’s some aspect of truth to it. As exercise recommendations get downgraded from vigorous …
I just made an amazing discovery: a scenic bikeway that goes all the way from Champoeg State Park, maybe 30 miles south of Portland, down to Armitage County Park in Eugene. It’s 132 miles of purportedly well-marked, bike-friendly road, skirting a few cities (Salem, Albany, even someplace called Brownsville that …
James and I get a pretty good complement of magazines at our house, from National Geographic to the New Yorker, from Harper’s to the New York Review of Books and other random things that happen upon our doorway. It’s a pretty amazing spread of information and thought–the only problem is …
