A brief ride to breakfast and then a drive north to see the IPP RR Crossing Bridge in Wayne, IL. We took the Sun Tour Easy LEs today in the event we ended up on the IPP. But despite not using this trail we did encounter a bit of crushed limestone when crossing the pond [...]
We’ve visited the Chicago Diner a couple of times in the past when looking for food after a bike ride along the Chicago Lakefront Trail. The meal I have found the most satisfying is their gyros sandwich. They use seitan instead of lamb meat and it really is quite delicious. What must be understood is [...]
Actually this is not a ride report. It would have been had the weather been a bit nicer and we both less “under the weather”. It all began on Saturday. The snow blower had been out for its annual maintenance prior to the winter and so it meant waiting around until it was delivered back [...]
11 year old Taylar makes her singing debut at Church. (Note: My sister’s eldest son’s daughter.)
Mima’s house in Kentucky
Grandma C.C. meets Liam for the fist time!
Visiting With Bryan in Kentucky! Their mother (my sister) is the videographer.
November 15, 2010 A white former state trooper pleaded guilty Monday to a lesser charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man at a civil rights protest, a killing that inspired historic voting rights marches. James Bonard Fowler, 77, entered the plea of misdemeanor second-degree manslaughter two weeks before he was scheduled to [...]
We awoke to a promise of temperatures no higher than 45 degrees Fahrenheit and winds from the west. A bit of breakfast was in order so we stopped at the local Einstein Brothers Bagel shop and got cinnamon raisin bagels with peanut butter, orange juice and fresh fruit cups to go. On the way in [...]
Below is an excerpt from Soledad O’Brien’s memoir “The Next Big Story,” published November 2 by Penguin Books. This excerpt is from the first chapter of the memoir. Read another exerpt from the book. I’m eleven. My sister Estela is fourteen. We’re at a photographer’s studio to get a picture taken to give to our [...]
Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander discusses her writing process with Kevin Young, Emory’s poet, professor and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, in his classroom during her visit to Emory on February 11, 2009. For more information visit http://marbl.library.emory.edu/danows… This is the Part 1 (1st Segment) of the interview with the Barack Obama inauguration poet [...]
Getting to the Ride Start When the Daylights Savings Time Change is reversed you get an extra hour of sleep. It never seems to be enough. Probably because your body is accustomed to waking an hour earlier and still does despite the chance to “sleep in”. After considering a couple of alternative rides we settled [...]
by S. PEARL SHARP I am a colored girl. Have been one ever since I first saw “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” and discovered that a stage full of women were talking, publicly, about parts of my soul, before I was able to have that conversation with myself. [...]
We on the right refuse to be “condemned to repeat” history… we are watching for the signs of ‘repeat business’ for 20th century Marxist dictators, and we’re seeing them ALL OVER THE PLACE. Barack Hussein MMM MMM MMM Obama’s use of children as harbingers of the glorious future of the fatherland is NOT new, and [...]
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