How to Stop Traffic

When I was a child I lived abroad in a country where there very different cultural attitude- particularly towards children. When I would need to cross the street to get to a park near my apartment, adult pedestrians and complete strangers would signal to cars who would come to dead stop. I would be escorted across […]

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A Story of Squeaky Brakes

…or “How I met Michael Dukakis” Do you ever get jealous of car horns? Do you ever just want to make some loud noise that says “Watch out!” or “Get out of my way” or “You fucker, stop texting and look before you cross the street!” I do. But I try to make do with a […]

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Bicycle Date

  Okay, so I went on this date. Not a first date, but close to it and we were getting along… so far. After dinner we realized that we were going the same direction and decided to bike part of the way together. I’m a pretty rule oriented cyclist. I signal, stop for red lights and […]

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