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Some thoughts about structured training and being a well-rounded athlete

...or at least a stripe

Our department will have a new teacher this year and when I met with her earlier this month, she was understandably curious about what...

An overnight bikepacking trip in the Catskills

This past week, I moved out of the classroom that I have worked in for the last three years. I am relocating to a classroom in the same...

An account of my three days spent rolling on Vermont dirt roads and trails

School is done and day one of summer found us puttering in the yard and digging in the garden (that was mostly Rashna). Our raised beds...

A short ode to an old friend

Thoughts on the book

We have just a few weeks left of school and really only a handful of "normal" days remaining. This is my twelfth June in the classroom....

New York's traffic laws regarding passing cyclists are too vague. They require that vehicles pass cyclists at an unspecified "safe...

Resetting teaching and learning after a taxing school year

When fitting in at school means falling away

Gear, tips, and lessons (updated as I learn them!)

Notions of equality in our nation's founding document

The meaning of life and its illusory ladder in Lulu Miller's Why Fish Don't Exist