Blog Feed: My Shining Castle

The Cure

Published on 2011-01-20 02:32:00

I posted this awhile back, then deleted it because I thought it sounded cheesy. Today, following a five-day stretch of riding that has ended with a plummet back into winter...I think it sounds like heaven. Sun on my shoulder, wind at my back.  T > read more

Hooray for Hollywood!

Published on 2011-01-19 03:07:00

My fantasy Golden Globes Acceptance Speech: Breathless after struggling up the red carpet in my nine-inch heels and ridiculous dress, I begin, “Whew. Wow! This is such an honor! Well, first, let me say thanks to Craig the lighting guy who, for > read more

Amo Amas Amat

Published on 2010-12-21 04:01:00

My brain woke me at OH(!)-dark-thirty this morning to have a long discussion with itself about the rise and fall of Rome. That makes me sound a lot more intellectual than (and exactly as insomniac as) I am, which of course is why I said it. In point > read more

OMG, it's Nothing.

Published on 2010-07-29 03:43:00

A lone drop of moisture snakes its way between my shoulder blades, moving slowly, tickling, due to the angle of my back, almost parallel to the road. The landscape is blurred, not by sweat, but speed. The monitor strapped around my chest, ignorant of > read more

Oh, For the Love of Bike...

Published on 2010-03-27 05:01:00

I must have done something supremely awesome in a previous life (for I can think of no such deed in this one). To have landed, in sanctioned unemployment no less, in a cycling haven such as Germany? I’m thinking that I may have invented electric li > read more

Fact-free Europe (Part Zwei)

Published on 2010-02-03 14:13:00

Myth #2 – The autobahn is fast and sexy. The term ‘autobahn’ is specific to Germany and other German-language countries like Switzerland and Austria. In Italy, the national highway system is called the autostrada, a term that I prefer and per > read more

Fact-free Europe

Published on 2010-01-25 13:21:00

The first in a series: Myth #1 – All Europeans are multilingual. Even the dumb ones at least speak English. All Europeans speak English much in the same way that all Americans hated George W. Bush. Meaning, the media says it, so it must be true. > read more

How I Pet My Mother

Published on 2010-01-18 07:55:00

It is clearly written in the Canine Code of Conduct that there are only two acceptable responses to Mortal Enemy Number Two (postman, of course, being Enemy Number One). When faced with The Dreaded Vacuum Cleaner, the rules state clearly; fight or f > read more

Shoulda Bought Domestic

Published on 2010-01-14 06:13:00

Let me introduce you to my dear friend Priss.  She is tall, blond, leggy, and quite lovely aside from her taste in automobiles.  She and I, along with Majic (mah hursbund...have you met?  He, too, is lovely, but for entirely other reasons.  He i > read more

The Theory of Optional Delusion

Published on 2010-01-13 03:34:00

I have my mother’s brains and my dad’s bullshit. I’m sure Aristotle or Thomas Jefferson or maybe even Adam himself uttered those words by way of explaining his progeny… Somewhere outside The Garden: “’My brother’s keeper’! Ha, that > read more