Backward Mutters

  • Fleche Knit One

    Spring Classics anyone? Not too motivated this morning — not too surprised, sports fans? Big Red meandered west and decided to meet his wife where she teaches crochet. The urban, trail ride felt a little like a Paris-Roubaix ride though there weren’t any cobbles. The change in pace and route…

  • Up, Red, Up

    Did the loop around Hanging Rock State Park today. There was a rippin’ tailwind out of the Southwest. Instead to spending myself on the trip up and back, I drove to Hanging Rock. I, know, I know…. At any rate, I took it easy, climbed Sauratown twice and heading back…

  • Teague Titan

    Got a Rambler protege out for a spin down Teague. First time out on the road with cleats and pedals which she negotiated quite well. The pace was s-l-o-w, but it was just what the Dr ordered for Big Red.

  • The Saddest Warfare

    “This is the saddest warfare that any poor creature can be engaged in. A soul under the power of conviction from the law, is pressed to fight against sin, but hath no strength for the combat. They cannot but fight, and they can never conquer; they are like men thrust…

  • "Sex Education" by Donna Freitas in Friday’s Wall Street Journal

    “When last semester I taught Wendy Shalit’s “A Return to Modesty,” in a class at Boston University called “Spirituality & Sexuality in American Youth Culture,” I assumed that my mostly left-leaning students would reject her arguments about the terrible effects that the hook-up culture has on young women and the…