Boulder — The process starts with a 37-year-old electric griddle, almost certainly a wedding gift, received when he was 21 but looked 16, hours after walking Mom down the steps of the Naval Academy Chapel. He can tune the heat within 2 degrees, knowing just which temp creates that pure golden underside, haloed in brown as the first bubbles form on top. When the surface stabilizes, he sends a slug of butte...
Boulder — The plan: climb 2500 feet on pavement for the privilege of climbing 1500 on dirt. Now turn around and climb 1000 more home. On a singlespeed. How hard could it be? [27:00] I’m out of the saddle, I ...
Boulder — Start early. Go slow. Bring layers. Expect change: in the weather, the terrain, yourself. Try new positions. Develop a rhythm. Talk to yourself. Hydrate. When the going’s easy, go a little eas...
Boulder — Or an average of 1.55 hours / day on the bike since moving west. Hill climbs, group rides, lunch rides, dirt rides, recovery rides, mountain pass descents in stinging rain, aimless wiggles down farm ...
The snow melts in some places, staying in others, creating a black-red-white mural.
The Super Walker
7 weeks & 1000 miles
Of Pancakes
Being Mortal in the Mountains
The last of the box of 100 postcards, in the mail. So that they're all postmarked Boulder.
This is what a bicycle looks like when flipped upside down and wrapped up in furniture pads.
Look closer: it's not snow on that tree. Finally!
Post-yoga second breakfast of champions. Boxcar Coffee, Pearl Street.
What's Inside? Papaya Edition
In which one tries to follow a New York Times recipe by the letter, but as ever, just ends up going rather rogue. Take that, Mr Bittman.
My Valentine sent me a valentine. Sometimes the post is slow.
Sitting in bed with a bottle of chai and a purring cat, reading Keith Houston's "Shady Characters" and then ... INTERROBANG!
Professional work suspended. Empanadas & Belgian stout pending. Block tower collapse impending. Laughter intended. Friends mending.
Entering here the timeless fellowship of the human spirit. Norlin Library, University of Colorado Boulder.
New home, first snow.
A few flakes of snow
Coworking at Lange Studios. Photo by George Lange.
Tidal waves.
A woman parked her scooter, set up a painting easel facing east. Bike commuters, bus riders, migrating slowly.
Just working.
I don't even know what this is?
A wind so steely, it leaves you warm and new.
Learning how to grow up.
Back home after nine months abroad, backpacking. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. Amazed. Grateful.