TwoDot Books Is Publishing My Pony Express Bikepacking Narrative
I'm happy to announce that TwoDot Books will be publishing my travel narrative about my summer 2021 Bikepacking trip on the Pony Express Trail. Expected publication date is 2023. In…
Fun in the Emergency Room
One Year Later
It is just under a year since my last blog entry here. Not because I have been inactive. More because I have nothing to report on the writing front. During…
Winters Meditation
Ride from Davis, CA along the Willow Canal (from Road 95 west) to the Winters Putah Creek Nature Park on April 15, 2020. The footage seemed meditative, more as if…
Rick navigating the overgrown levee road
Rainy Day Ride
I went for a ride with my friend Rick today. Because we are all social distancing, we took separate cars to the place we started from and rode a loop…
Afternoon on a day of light rain in March, after the driest February on record
Gravel Sights
Just a few shots I've taken while riding around the area. Despite the signs, it seems there are a lot of miles of unpaved roads to ride in Yolo County.…
Gravel Ride
I took a break from writing today to go on a short ride. This is a big deal. Not that I didn't write. But I haven't gone an actual "ride"…
The North Davis Ditch
Ditch Thoughts
For some number of years now, I have made the local Peet's my go-to place for writing. At points along the way, I have progressively (regressively?) changed my mode of…
Thoughts on Letter Writing
So I've written a couple of letters now (sticking with the one-a-day thing), and I have a couple of observations. First, let's just acknowledge here that having observations about letter…
Spencerian Penmanship practice book
Learning to Handwrite
I have been training myself to handwrite over the past few years. It's a lot harder than I ever would have thought. My writing has always been bad. I remember…
Yeah, I've got the supplies, but . . .
InCoWriMo
InCoWriMo stands for International Correspondence Writing Month. The idea is to write and send a letter every day in February. I suspect it's little more than a Hallmark event, the…