My story “Beat-Down” is scheduled to be published by www.EveryDayFiction.com on October 20. Here’s a teaser: “What’s up?” Patricia said to Adrian. Jason already knew; of course he already knew. “Beat-down,” he said. Adrian nodded, the smile growing larger, more leering, more malicious. “No,” Patricia said. “Don’t.” But it was […]
When I was younger, a friend said to me—if memory serves, in response to my resolute disinclination to smoke cigarettes with him—”Your body is your temple, isn’t it?” It was the first time I’d heard the expression, and although I’ve heard it many times since, it seems no less ridiculous […]
Before several high-profile cycling accidents and enough close-runs of my own changed the focus of the last few bike logs to safety, the initial ones were all about the benefits I was delighted to find by cycling to work. As I remarked in a previous entry, one of those unexpected […]
For reasons personal and interesting only to myself, I’ve been thinking about people who complain regularly (often with the preamble that they aren’t the type of person who likes to complain), and the very old expression about which wheel gets greased. There is truth to the phrase, of course (otherwise, […]
Very few things throw me more in a conversation than when someone says, “And of course that begs the question …” In philosophy, “begging the question” is a technical term that means you’ve made the fallacy of assuming the truth of your conclusion in your premises: i.e., of arguing from […]
After I published my previous bike log, in which I begged motorists to be more careful around cyclists and to do a better job of sharing the road, it was pointed out to me that cyclists have a role to play in road safety as well. Of course that’s true, […]