Just when I reached the Golden Gate bridge, the nausea deepened. It was perfect. I took one hand off the steering wheel, rolled down the window, and vomited out the ...
About a year ago, I found myself once again lying in bed, my bandaged leg propped up on a wall of pillows. It was my second ACL reconstruction in two ...
I’m writing this article two weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. People around the globe are practicing social distancing or going into quarantine. There is ...
The #metoo movement continues to expose an uncomfortable reality: if you are female, you will probably face some form of sexual harassment, assault, or abuse in your lifetime. According to ...
So far I’ve had three bike saddles and they’ve all ended in duct tape. I can’t tell you what brand they were because I have no idea. Brand, style, quality ...
I put my head down and counted the pedal stokes forward, but the wind pushed so hard that it felt like madness. My cheeks stung, my knees ached, and I ...
I have a long history of riding off into the sunset on bicycles that don’t fit me or barely work. In 2010, I pedaled across the Andes on a bike ...
Continued from Beyond the Doorstep Mile and Setting Me Loose. I was shocked when I looked up and saw a lake full of icebergs. The giant blocks hung there in ...
Continued from Setting Me Loose As I biked out of the airport, I felt almost giddy. The air was cool, and the road stretched forward in a long, silent curve. It ...
When I was 21, I worked in a nightclub of ill repute. The windows were painted black, and the doors opened into a dark haze of thumping music and hot ...
