It must be payback. Karma, hubris, or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night when… Read More ›
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WHAT WOULD STEVE McQUEEN HAVE DONE?
It must be payback. Karma, hubris, or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night when… Read More ›
FIVE THINGS I DON’T MISS ABOUT COMMUTING
5 Things that you miss about your daily commute. I contemplated leaving this page blank because there is nothing I miss about commuting. I did tens of thousands of miles of long distance commuting. Audiobooks were an outgrowth of the… Read More ›
WHERE IS STEVE McQUEEN WHEN I REALLY NEED HIM? – Garry Armstrong
It must be payback. Karma, hubris – or both. For more than 30 years, I drove a succession of fully loaded convertibles with Steve McQueen in my brain. Once, I was racing to a story in the dead of night… Read More ›
CAR-MA AND COPS – Marilyn Armstrong
It was a lovely crisp Saturday morning. I was heading north out of New York to visit Garry in Boston. I don’t remember which car I was driving. Probably my turquoise VW Rabbit, my personal pocket rocket. I am not a slow… Read More ›
DRIVING, RIDING, PILOTING AND CAPTAINING – Garry & Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things People Drive, Ride, Pilot, or Captain Lots of ways to get around! You can ride, pilot, drive, captain. You can ride a horse, a bicycle, a motorcycle, an ATV … Little plane and a big sky …… Read More ›
A BUSY, BUSY DAY IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY – Garry Armstrong
T.G.I.F.! It’s the end of a not so merry week in this murky month of May. The weather Gods have not been kind to many people in the United States. I guess we should be happy not to have volcanoes,… Read More ›
A PASSENGER ON LIFE’S ROAD
I am just a passenger on the long, rutted road of life. Seriously, I don’t drive more than I must. Don’t like it when I do. I know I can, which is important (emergencies can happen), but it has been… Read More ›
RIGHT WAY, WRONG WAY
Question: You are walking around the house and you feel something on your foot. Like maybe … a cord. Do you: A) Give a good, solid pull. Be very distressed when a lamp crashes to the floor. B) Keep walking until you… Read More ›
WAITING – COMING HOME: THURDAY’S SPECIAL
THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: WAITING Waiting. Waiting for the clouds to burst? For the road to take us home? Long drives are the essence of waiting. In both pictures, we were almost home.
RELUCTANTLY ON THE ROAD AGAIN
The day was beautiful. A perfect summer’s day. Cloudless blue sky. I needed a prescription from a doctor near Boston. It’s 50 miles away. Typically, about 45 or 50 minutes driving. But not on Friday afternoon in mid-July. If you live around here, you know… Read More ›
SLOW DRIVING
SLOW DRIVERS | THE DAILY POST Garry and I are old enough to remember the good old days and I’m the perfect age to have been one of the kids in the back seat pinching and punching a sibling while whining: “Are we there yet?” How come our parents didn’t… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 