I’m all the time finding cool stuff during my bike rides through the city. I never find anything in my car, or anybody else’s, for that matter. But on a bike, I roll over jewelry, cell phones, tools, pets, money, lost loves … you name it, I find it, and more often than not — pack ...

My dad has a strange fondness for shoes. I don’t mean that in a bad way. He’s not, to my knowledge, a podophile or foot fetishist. He just likes shoes. A lot. Or, more accurately, he likes buying shoes. As far back as I can remember, the man was dropping coin on footwear like ...

I found myself in an unusual predicament the other day. I rolled up behind a car stopped at a light, and, glancing down, I noticed a pair of scissors sitting on the car’s bumper. “Bummer,” I thought. “Dude’s about to lose his scissors.” But then my paranoid-parent brain ...

The darnedest thing happened on the way to work the other day. It was late afternoon. The sky was overcast, the light slowly fading. I approached a T intersection not far from my home and rolled to a stop. I had a stop sign; cross traffic did not, and this particular intersection was near ...

I’ve been waging a war lately with my teenage daughter. Lovely girl that she is, she tends to overuse the word “amazing.” She’ll insist she had an amazing hamburger for lunch, which she washed down with an amazing milk. After an amazing time at chorale practice, she’ll log on to ...

Whether it’s my inner (OK, mostly outer) child, my inside-and-out hobgoblin or simply my insatiable sweet tooth, I love Halloween. But I have to admit, riding my bike on All Hallow’s Eve is a bit of a mixed bag. I’m certain the drunk-to-sober-driver ratio around 2 a.m. is higher on ...