I’ve looked back at it and have to say, this is a slightly dull Fortnightly: a mostly personal slice of life, deep in the Third Act. There are two excuses: First, it will indicate to some (who may have...
Tag Archives: Limbic
MY POOR NEIGHBOR
Our beloved, next-apartment neighbor – who figures prominently in Thinner This Year as a living example of the importance of the limbic life, even deep in your 80’s – lost her “new” husband a few weeks ago. Awful damned...
EQUIPMENT: THE BIKE FOR YOUR ETERNITY
A close friend turned 60 the other night and got an superb bike from an inventor/bike maker friend (see photo). My pal had previously given the inventor a walker, painted in British racing green, with serious attachments. The Birthday...
BIKE-CAMP-BONANZA
Here’s a mini-kedge that can’t be beat. Hilly and I went to 20th Bike Camp” in Old Lyme Ct this past week. Some 60 pals (of all ages and abilities from 20-year-old professional racers to me) got together for...
DISGUSTING EXCESS
We are no longer allowed to smoke cigars in New York City and a fine thing it is, too. BUT an old pal took me to a VERY fancy New York restaurant the other night, where we ate ourselves...
Sad Old Days
It’s been a little tough around here lately… a bunch of pals, including one extremely close one, have died and I am a little blue. We went out to the writer, Peter Mathiessen’s, house in Sagaponack for a small...
