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What I learned this week, March 28, 2014
Highways Are Bleeding Dallas. So Why Are You Surprised We Want to Kill One? I-345 near downtown Dallas 6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever Fairdale Bikes in Austin has this little...
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What I learned this week, April 18, 2014
What Are the Least Outdoorsy Cities in America? Dallas, no surprise, is #1. Dallas is the sprawling place of ten-gallon hats and gleaming ten-miles per gallon SUVs. It’s the oil industry’s heart and...
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Cobra Brewing Company
Rhythm and Beards playing at the Cobra Brewing Company in Lewisville, Texas. I often say (boast?) that with a bicycle and a transit pass I can get anywhere in the Metroplex. I think I have proven that...
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Mole Temptress
The Bourbon Barrel Temptress, on a Bourbon Barrel As I have said before, there is a local beer, a milk stout, made by Lakewood Brewing company called The Temptress. I think this is one of the best...
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Rhythm and Beards
One of the best things about bumming around the city – visiting what you can – especially things like brewery tours and such – is the great local music that you can discover. At the Cobra Brewing...
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What I learned this week, June 27, 2014
Fit to be tied After over five decades – I learn that I have been doing it wrong. Why didn’t someone tell me sooner? BTW – it works. The Best Way To Tie Your Running Shoes Magazine Street, New Orleans...
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What I learned this week, July 7, 2014
US bike boom strongest with people over 55 (not hipsters) Community Beer Co. wants you to name its newest brew Riding up outside Community Brewing in the Dallas Design District Slightly More Than 100...
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What I learned this week, July 25, 2014
Love People, Not Pleasure ABD AL-RAHMAN III was an emir and caliph of Córdoba in 10th-century Spain. He was an absolute ruler who lived in complete luxury. Here’s how he assessed his life: “I have now...
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The Sky Explodes
“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.” —-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow I had signed up (paid ahead of time online) for a bike ride at...
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I Venture a Long Long Way For a Waffle
Unless you live in North Texas – you have no idea how horrifically big the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex is. The entire complex of cities is seventy miles across… side to side or top to bottom… from...
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Beauty Is In The Eye
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. —-Kinky Friedman Deep Ellum, then and now. I am old enough and have lived in Dallas long enough to have seen Deep Ellum rise, fall, and now rise again. When I...
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An Aggregate of Last Moments
“It’s been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the...
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The Kind of Dream People Have Only When They’re Seventeen
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when...
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Rid Of My Demons
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.” ― Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams Nola Brewing Company New Orleans, Louisiana
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Outside, For A While Anyway
“They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else–the cold, and where he’d go in it–was outside, for a while anyway.” ― Raymond Carver, What...
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What I learned this week, December 5, 2014
So little time, so many books…. 100 Notable Books of 2014 What we learned from 5 million books Have you played with Google Labs’ Ngram Viewer? It’s an addicting tool that lets you search for words and...
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What I learned this week, February 6, 2015
Seersucker Ride and Picnic, Lee Park, Dallas, Texas BikeableDallas.com Updates, news, and musings from the City of Dallas Bicycle Program My Xootr Swift folding bike in the cool bike rack in front of...
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How Much Soul And Transcendence
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.” ― Tom Robbins,...
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What I learned this week, March 08, 2015
The land of lakes, volcanoes, and sun. A painting I bought on my last trip to Nicaragua. Why Nicaragua Is Becoming A Travel Hotspot Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Dallas, Texas Can Everyday Biking Keep Us...
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