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A deep connection, a moment in time on a coast-to- coast bicycle adventure

It was early December when I disassembled and packed my touring bicycle and gear in a large cardboard box and flew from my home in…

Sep 8, 2022

Author with bicycle and panniers.

Sep 8, 2022

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Pitch a tent, attract a handsome fellow or three, and meet an amazing kid

Jul 7, 2021

Pitch a tent, attract a handsome fellow or three, and meet an amazing kid

Jul 7, 2021

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The textbook scam…and a radical idea from a college lecturer

Years ago, a colleague, an electrical engineer, was angered by the speciousness of his daughter’s elementary school textbooks. The textbook…

Jul 9, 2021

The textbook scam…and a radical idea from a college lecturer

Jul 9, 2021

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Okra: a vegetable so slimy you don’t notice how hairy it is.

It’s a gift from the vegetable kingdom.

Jan 2, 2022

Okra: a vegetable so slimy you don’t notice how hairy it is.

Jan 2, 2022

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Forty years later my friend remains true to form

While in my early twenties I started a job with an engineering company in the small city (population 12,000 at that time) where I had…

Jul 2, 2021

Jul 2, 2021

Elderly or in the prime of life, people seem to stay in relationships for the wrong reasons..

Sunk cost: I've already invested X amount of time; it would be a waste to abandon ship now.

Feb 23

Feb 23

What a career you've had! This story is the courtroom equivalent of shootout at the OK Corral.

I worked as server in a little roadhouse near College Station in the early 2000s. Don Adam and a male employee were daily lunch customers…

Feb 22

Feb 22

Still able to do at 67 almost everything I did at age 30, albeit with longer recovery time.

But to add an anecdote to the content of this essay, I was reading two whodunnits at the same time. In a grand coincidence, in BOTH books…

Feb 18

Feb 18

What am I missing here?

Let's not forget that Nancy Parker is likely naive, young, and unsophisticated, thus didn't consider the ramifications of going public. A…

Dec 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024

What a selfless, kind act of that couple!

May 12, 2024

May 12, 2024

Jan Gerston

Jan Gerston

Cyclist, hiker, textile enthusiast, Anglophile. Domestic goddess-without-portfolio. Fan of any classic music genre, Baroque to rock. Owned by 2 dogs + 2 cats.

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