What Do I Know?

Writing about Zohran Mamdani has been on my todo list for a while.  I'm finally getting around to it on election night.   As I begin wri...

[TECH NOTE:  This post has been delayed because I’m using a new iPad 16 for our trip and the simple way to shrink photo file size on my MacB...

  I’m reading Istanbul by Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.   It’s an autobiographical look at the author, Istanbul, and Turk...

The year I studied in Göttingen, Germany, we had most of March and April off.  Hitchhiking was my main means of travel out of town, though i...

Normalize, means to make something seem normal.  It's been used a lot recently to refer to events - like school shootings and outrageous...

On my bike ride back from the Muldoon Saturday Market at  Chanshtnu Park, I rode through the parking lot of the Totem Theater.  I've pas...

I was riding with a young friend who was biking home from the university for the first time.  As we approached the bridges I told her that t...

 Here's the bridge.  It crosses Campbell Creek near 56th and 57th Avenues.   The trail to the bridge is being eroded by the creek.  If y...

[UPDATES is at the bottom] Lake Otis Parkway was closed Saturday (May 30)  at 42nd Avenue, just south of where it crosses Tudor, one of the ...

That wasn't the original title, but as I started writing, it just seemed more apt.   This post is about two videos - one by Senator Chri...

[Overview:  The key here is the video.  Find 30 minutes to watch/listen.  It puts lots of important things into place.  The rest of the post...