October 2 happens to be Name Your Car Day. Who would have thought we needed a day for this? According to the National Today page on this, “Studies show that naming inanimate objects can make us feel more in control…Continue Reading
Category: Ponderings & Miscellany
Philosophy, politics, & whatever else comes along that doesn’t fit the other categories.
I rode my bike today. No big deal, do that quite often. The fact that it’s not a big deal sometimes feels like a big deal. I mean, I used to drive everywhere. Dang near everywhere, anyway. I lived in…Continue Reading
A collection of excerpts and links from poems about transportation, travel, driving.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Riding my bike always makes me happy. Always. Among my daily habits or near-habits (hey, pobody’s nerfect), I keep a journal. Each day I put a heading at the top of…Continue Reading
Working in the yard, much like walking or riding my bike, frees my brain to run wherever it likes. Last July it brought me to a list of insights into the ways that community engagement is a lot like growing…Continue Reading
Serendipity: What happens when you’re paying attention. Serendipity: My method for finding poems for the various collections I curate. Oddity: How often someone who walks, bikes, and takes transit for the majority of her gettin’ around runs into poems about…Continue Reading
I recognized the move because I’ve made it myself: You rear (pronounced more like “rare” in some regional dialects) back on your heels, throw your hands in the air, and give the offending person The Look. It’s the look that…Continue Reading
Legislative sessions have their own pace. There’s often a flurry at the beginning as bills are filed. No worries, you have time to catch up on the reading before it gets down to crunch time. It’s okay if you didn’t…Continue Reading
When I served in the Idaho state legislature I quickly learned that many people didn’t really understand what level of government I served in (“Are you home from D.C.?”). If they thought about state lawmaking at all they thought about…Continue Reading
Objectively speaking if we step away from human-made calendars then every day is New Year’s Day. Which is to say, on any given day a whole year of days stretch out in front of you, just waiting for you to…Continue Reading
I don’t live in a 15-minute neighborhood or a 15-minute city, one in which I can meet the majority of everyday needs in a 15-minute walk. I find that an imprecise and unimodal measure, though, and implicitly ableist as well.…Continue Reading