By now, you’ve read about Jennifer Wilkins, whose picture has been plastered on every news service in the U.S. because she was presumed abducted. Searches were conducted, posters had been posted, and a reward was offered. The truth is more pedestrian: after eight — eight — wedding showers, she was having doubts about the impending, […]
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Route map Lilac Century Surprise, sponsored by North Division Bike Shop, Aurora Rotary, and Group Health (Been on it? Rate it!) Route: Counter-clockwise from Spokane Falls Community College to Tum Tum, Corkscrew Canyon, Long Lake, Rearden, and back Distance: 93.3 miles. For reasons that will be evident soon, I skipped the “Four Mound Prarie” loop,
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Twice this week someone’s sent me a dried sourdough culture that has accidentally been opened by the US Post Office and encased in a “We’re Sorry” envelope. One envelope was labeled “sourdough,” but the other was a cryptic “Maui,” Bo Ure’s home grown culture. Should I tidy up my place in anticipation of a “courtesy
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One of the cool things about this area during this time of year is you can see other folks cycling to work. Even cooler was on Monday, when my friend Doug caught up with me at the top of the hill. Doug’s a much stronger rider than I am, even when his legs “are cooked.”
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My washer has become a sullen teenager, leaving an occasional, unremovable streak of rust on random areas my clothes. I didn’t realize this until recently. Actually, I had assumed the kids had left a funky pen in their pocket and it was washed with our comingled laundry. Thank goodness my spouse figured it out; otherwise,
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In “The Cuckoo’s Egg,” Clifford Stoll recounts how he spent a few hours answering his thesis committee’s oral exam question: “Why is the sky blue?” It’s a question my child might ask. Another is “Why are you and mom spending so much time on taxes?” I had to summon Herculean strength to avoid interjecting the
I’m on a mini-trip to a training class in San Francisco. Well, technically Millbrae, as I’m carless, but within a mile of the airport. And only 0.8 miles from one of two In-N-Out burger joints in Northern CA. (While fine, I’m afraid it didn’t live up to my classmates’ hype.) The class is cool, and
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To me, coffee is very much like napalm in the morning: I love the smell, but it’s taken me a while to acclimate to the taste. I still can’t drink it straight. Luckily, diluting it with milk, chocolate and peppermint is now socially tolerated. Heck, if I wanted to order a venti soy latte with