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Excerpt, A Motorcycle Ride in Mexico
Dust eats away at my skin. The leather I wear makes every minute an inferno on the motorcycle. Heat explodes up my ass, creeping past crack and sack to pillage my spine and overburden my shoulders. But I am an adult, I am in Mexico, I have documents and a clean record; I can drink,…
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Another Kind of Boundary: the Hallways of Menomonie High School
Drumming, an Uncivilizing Reverberation At 17, when Colt 4 broke up, I immediately joined a second band. We were disorganized and unpopular, but our singer had a teenage superpower – access to his grandmother’s remote cabin in the woods – and after high school basketball games, classmates drove into the country and trudged through the…
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Rocky Point Rally – Motorcycling in Mexico as reported in American Rider Magazine January, 2022
It’s almost as if reality stalls and the motorcycle dances in time with the dazzling sun of Mexico. With eyes to see, anyone looking around would swear Salvador Dali painted the street where bar balconies, groaning under the weight of heavy bikers, hang low like winter branches and the thump-thump of Big Twins announce ‘schedules…
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See you at The Foundry Yoga in Tempe, AZ, on Saturday morning. Copies of YOGA SONG are available.
Four reviewers from Canada, the UK, Ohio, and Wisconsin have published their review on Amazon. Here’s a quick sampling: “This is a must-read for anyone who loves yoga, or is simply interested in what it feels like to be completely present and fully connected.” Sara Highfield, yoga teacher, International Yoga Model, and regular columnist for…
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Like Lava
Emily in Cali found inspiration from this paragraph in Yoga Song. (from IG).
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AMERICAN RIDER MAGAZINE, covering the diverse motorcycling world with style and substance
American Rider Magazine, covering motorcycling with style and substance. Two of my friends have really taken the motorcycle writing and photo game to a high level. Pictured on the cover is Oliver Touron, photomotojournalist extraordinaire, sitting on a Harley in front of the Eiffel Tower. Oliver wrote the lead story, “American Rider: Riding Harleys in…
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ON JOINING the 400 CLUB 10/27/22
400 sessions of the 26+2 yoga series known as Bikram Yoga. Each class is 90 minutes in a hot room, a yoga style that builds mental and physical willpower. For ten years now, I’ve observed and experienced how this yoga changes people. The Tapas (fire) of Yoga First, it will get harder Then it will…
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Camel Pose from the Inside
If you view a photo of someone doing a pose called camel, you’ll notice it looks uncomfortable and it is. Along with it, you’ll frequently see a list of physical benefits that happen over time when doing the camel pose. I’m certain that the combination of the backward-bending camel, alternating with forward bends healed my…