Tag Archives: biking

Rain & Pain & Knitting Gain!

I was ostensibly looking for tonic water (my roommate brought gin, which is why I love her…) and I found it at the United Dairy Farmers.

But I became so carried away with the warm, fragrant evening and rode in silly circles with my headlight flashing and a dopey grin on my face. Continue reading

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Hope From Mr. Levine

October will mark an extended period of HOME TIME, and October will be pattern writing month. My current mental preparation before the onset of “Worksheet Wonderland” are like those initial folds in an origami project. (And it allows me to rationalize the time I’ve spent playing sudoku.) Continue reading

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Rome, and Home

I’m an almost 50-year-old, overweight Minnesotan. If I can handle the hills on a bike in Rome, there’s a good chance that many other folks can, too! A bike is a great way to get the ‘lay of the land’ – to get a sense of the scale and layout of a city – and the €10 I spent on the bike rental that Friday was some of the best money I spent! Continue reading

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Super Nanny

Each large city has it’s own flavor. To me, NY feels brusque, LA feels self absorbed, London feels a bit patronizing and Dublin feels like an inefficient-but-controling nanny constantly telling visitors that they’re being naughty. Continue reading

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Fumin’ & a-fussin’

However, as I write this neither kid is able to fall asleep because the music from the Bewley’s disco below is SO loud that it actually drowns out the quiet science documentary we’re trying to watch (we put the TV on to offset the DJ and the party downstairs) Continue reading

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