Knee socks, green jackets, black lycra tops straining across bulging bellies—or maybe hanging loose. White hair floating beneath a helmet. Fat tires, skinny tires. Drop-bar bikes, upright rides— Meet me in Rio Vista Park on a 70-degree November day. Listen for a Swiss-German accent, an East Coast brassiness, a Midwestern diffidence. We’re deep in the […]
Archive | November, 2018
A Fistful of Lightning
I left Seattle (again) on a gloriously sunny Monday — statistically the wettest day of the year, but you’d never know it. Outside my window, a 12-foot-tall wooden dragon raised a red lightning bolt to a bold blue sky. Beyond, the jagged silhouettes of the Cascades echoed the zigzag lightning in its fist. Over the […]