There are bike people and there are car people. This being America, there are far more of the latter, which is sorta pathetic given the meager requirements for bike personhood. It’s generally a matter of self-identification, not unlike religious affiliation: Daily, weekly, even monthly observance of the rituals aren’t required so long as you believe […]
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Tour of the Unknown Coast is NOW
Around about a week ago, some of us who shall not be named exclaimed, “What?! The Tour of the Unknown Coast is here already? But I haven’t even trained! And I was going to conquer The Wall this year and be the queen of ‘California’s toughest century.’” Yes, the TUC is here. If you have […]
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Native Rushes
Caveat lector: Though I’m familiar with the handy mnemonic. “Sedges have edges; rushes are round; grasses are hollow right up from the ground,” I’m no botanist and I’m evaluating these plants from the point of view of a gardener. It has taken me years to clear the stodgy, banal nursery plants out of our yard. […]
