Op-Ed

Have you ever met a person who, if everybody likes a particular thing, dislikes it on principle? Sort of a mix of curmudgeon and contrarian. Like a contramudgeon. There. I…

I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process…

It was the '70s, and I was in awe. Evel Knievel was jumping a Harley over buses, and Scott Wesson was riding wheelies all the way down our suburban street. These were feats…

In 2002, over an anguished lunch with my father at a Cajun restaurant, I asked him for a five-figure loan. He agreed, but he told me it was contingent on me talking my mother…

He’s called Retro Rick, but I have a few new nick-names for him after a recent ride. Rick “It’s not as steep or a long as it looks (steeper and longer actually).” Rick “Top is…

It's a thinky time of life, isn't it? Everyone stuck at home. Trying to work. Trying not kill their family. I don't know about you, but I'm erring on the side of too damn…

The mind searches, sealed corridors of the future, old traps from the past. I thread a ridgeline of the mind, the finished to one side and the yet-to-happen on the other.…

It's all going that way. The animating idea in cycling, after the mountain bike boom of the '90s, was a swing back to road riding, road racing, everything on pavement. A…

I have good news everybody. The presidential election is coming up, and whoever wins is probably gonna cure Covid-19, because that's what presidents do. Am I right?!?! No.…

My brother was the sort of character you could never quite figure out. He could say and do horrible things. He could be malicious and dumb. He was chaotic and unpredictable.…