I’ve tried to sit down and write this post for the past five days or so. This image and the word “humanity” have been dogging my mental steps all week. I just finished reading A Reliable Wife which had a lot of passages portraying turn of turn-of-the-(last)-century Chicago and St. Louis as crowded, loud, [...]
The 2009 Tour de France ended today. I love the Tour and watch as much of it as possible every July. It’s unlike anything else in the sporting world. There are both team and individual tactics–often seemingly at odds, politics, the self-sacrifice of domestiques, drama and tradition. There are weeks of grueling speed, weather, altitude [...]
