The day after the 2016 election, the country woke to huzzas for Trump and long lines to fill prescriptions for anxiety and depression.

The ride from Pittsburgh on the Three Rivers Heritage trail, the Great Allegheny Passage, and then the C&O Canal Towpath to Georgetown/D.C. has ended. The memories will last; the photos may fade; the friendships I made, hopefully will endure; the saddle sores will go away. 

My simplistic interpretation of Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion is: "Objects, emotions, thoughts, feelings, elections, politics, public speaking, power-point presentations, poor bosses, etc. tend to keep doing what they're doing until something forces change in trajectory or momentum. In other words, something--rocks in the road, discontented voters, pay checks that bounce--steps out in front and shouts: "Stop!."

A fly fishing, politically left of center, ranch-born and raised bicycle-riding vegetarian is a contradiction of terms on a number of levels. 

This past Wednesday evening I felt a lurch, a twist in my gut, vertigo. 

In March, (Brock)Turner was convicted of three felony counts: sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and assault with an intent to commit rape.”

The merde de jour is the pointless North Carolina law (HB 2) prohibiting transgendered persons from using public toilets, that match their gender identity. The law should not be looked at as the “bathroom bill” instead it is a revocation of civil rights and the right to public access. The North Carolina legislators and the misinformed misanthropes, who support it, need to bag-check their suitcases of fear and bigotry and knock on the door of common sense! (2

A woman texting in the therapist’s waiting room, laughed, said: “How did we communicate before cellphones were created?”