I was riding to work Sunday, when, just a couple of houses away from home, I felt a sharp pain in my right ankle. At my age, pain is a common enough occurrence, but this was unusual: It really stinking hurt. I glanced down and saw a wasp waspishly going to town on my leg. I’ve had ...

It’s hard to get fired up over a statute, but I have to admit I’m quite tickled by half of a bill that should make travel by bike just a bit better in the state. On Friday, the Kansas House and Senate approved HB2192. In addition to the provision that would allow for a speed limit of 75 ...

I was riding home from racquetball the other day, and slid out going around a corner in a huge drift of sand. I dodged an usually large amount of car debris — chunks of body molding, shards of red tail-light plastic, head-light glass — and spied several dead birds. I pulled into my ...

I was sitting in church the other day when I had an epiphany, which is a far better place to have an epiphany than, say, a synagogue or mosque or temple. My mind wandered a bit — don’t fret for my soul; it wasn’t during one of those all-important everlasting-life parts of the service, ...

I’ve discovered the joy of flashing. No, not in the mardi gras sense, and not like that creepy, rotund, pasty old guy down the street who insists on mowing every time shirtless and wearing those too-short shorts. The flashing I’m talking about here involves the light on my bicycle ...

The other night, I was working ahead a bit on today’s pages, and I noticed the date was Feb. 14 and wondered, out loud, if I had still time to get my sweetie something for Valentine’s Day. A co-worker chuckled at my plight, then suggested I bake her (my better half, not my co-worker) a ...