Tuesday, December 6, 2011

INNOVATION: TEN THINGS THAT CANNOT BE IMPROVED UPON

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Second in a series… After a recent rant about our tendency to take a good thing and improve it until it doesn’t work anymore (the toaster, ...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

INNOVATION: THEN, NOW… BUT…

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Improving on something until it doesn’t work anymore. I picked up our bottle of Windex today. I squeezed and squeezed the trigger. No pr...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

MY DARLING [LAKE] CLEMENTINE

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THE LEADING EDGE of December turned out to be a sixty-degree day. Whether or not this was a weather mirage – the Tule fog common to the are...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

WHILE RIDING ON THESE COOLER DAYS

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Baby, it’s cold outside. - Johnny Mercer WHEN THE DAILY HIGH temps only rise to the 50 to 55 degree range, only the intrepid can be found ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

AN INCIDENT AND A CLOSE CALL (OR TWO)

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…there but for the grace of God… Mom , circa : yesterday TOY-RUN TRIP-UP: On this chilly November morn, a charitable group of cruiser ride...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

10 QUESTIONS FROM THE CHURCH OF THE OPEN ROAD

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… more purging of the pocket notebook… I keep a notebook in my pocket while riding and gleaned from it these ten questions that came to mi...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

SHOPPING SEMI-LOCALLY

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Trying to shop locally in a corporate-consumer landscape… SHOP LOCAL. Shop the independent. In the ‘burbs surrounding the greater Sacram...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

SINGLE USE TIRES?

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The joys and disappointments of tubeless motorcycle tires DON’T GET ME WRONG. I love how the Michelin Road Pilot II tires have fixed the ...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

REMEMBRANCE

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Forester Gil Murray DURING MY BRIEF TENURE as principal at Chester Elementary School I was, perhaps, the only person in town who had not be...
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Saturday, October 29, 2011

FALL REFLECTIONS ON THE BEAR RIVER

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Along Drum Powerhouse Road A WONDERFUL ASPECT of living in Northern California is the fact that November can be knocking but there may sti...