A number of Michigan schools are making cursive handwriting optional. I remember learning to write in “cursive” as opposed to “printing” somewhere around third grade. At the time (and even now) I never really understood why, after learning one perfectly good way of writing (and much more legible in my opinion), we [...]

Last night before the run I stepped outside into the snow. The world was that dampened quiet that comes only with the falling snow. I was thinking back over my various runs, races and bicycle commutes home as I often do before another one and realized that I like to run or bike [...]

It being Thanksgiving I ran the annual Bethesda Turkey Chase. It’s be more then a month since I ran the Army Eleven-point-four miler. I think I’ve run only once in between. I have been doing more Spinervals – after a couple years off the bike I feel like it’s time to return. [...]

Recently I’ve become aware of how much content is available to be consumed. It started out (for me) with the TV news, then newspapers and then the Internet. I used to feel obliged to absorb all of this information, thinking that I would be informed as my eyes scanned one headline after another. [...]

I decided to put my motorcycle away for the winter. It was 60 degrees and sunny today, perfect riding weather and I thought it was a good note to end the season on. I have an odd relationship with my motorcycle – when I’m riding it completely consumes me. All I can [...]

My fiance is a TA and recently received this email from one of her students in reference to a quiz taken in class:
I know this is a slightly delayed message about the first quiz, but with the
second one here, I wanted to share some of my concerns. I studying all of
the materials that were [...]

I don’t know why it needs an exclamation mark. I met one of my former co-workers for lunch at Oyamel today. I haven’t been out to a Mexican restaurant since December 30, 2003 where I got violent food poisoning and spent the whole night vomiting and diarrheaing – so much so that in [...]

I’m so glad France is on fire. They’ve declared a state of emergency. It’s been going on for two weeks. I guess this makes sense since the cops probably only work 35 hours a week, or they’re all out taking their month of vacation. It looks like the protesters are putting [...]

I just found out one of my landlords from college died. The house I rented from her wasn’t in the best shape, but she apparently used to live in it with her mother. A couple years before I rented from her one of her tenants was doped up and attacked her – leaving [...]

This story is too funny. It’s started a whole email thread with my friends that hasn’t changed subjects since August. I had to post it in case the original goes away:
CHICAGO (AP) – LaChania Govan said she got bounced around by her cable company when she called to complain. She made dozens of [...]