D&F 2-6-22
D&F 2/6/22 Last week felt terrible in a lot of ways. For whatever reason, each day seemed to drag on, as the pandemic continued to weigh on my brain. Even...
D&F 1-30-22
D&F 1/30/22 Happy UCI Cyclocross World Champs to all those who celebrate. Cyclocross is so dominated by Belgian and Dutch riders that it’s hard to cheer too...
D&F 1-23-22
D&F 1/23/22 Happy weekend to all the birds that found themselves traveling extremely fast this weekend in the bay. We had gusts up to 70mph overnight, and on...
D&F 1-16-22
D&F 1/16/22s Between COVID and the volcano, this weekend has me feeling all of my feelings: https://twitter.com/eha_news/status/1481562954474663937?s=20...
D&F 1-10-22
D&F 1-9-22 It’s back to work week here in the Shelley house. After a very nice break from the 24th until now, I’ll need to remember what I do for my job, at...
D&F 1-2-22
D&F 1/2/22 Happy New Year! Today’s newsletter went out a little late not because of a party-induced hangover, but because I couldn’t stop playing Ghosts of...
D&F 12-26-21
D&F 12/26/21 Happy holidays—whichever you celebrate. Personally, the coolest holiday (solstice) passed by this week and New Years is coming soon. My holiday...
D&F 12-19-21
D&F 12/19/21 Happy cancelled plans and increased anxiety weekend! With the Omicron variant hotting-up, I’ve cancelled my impending trip to New York, and...
D&F 12-12-21
D&F 12/12/21 It’s chilly enough at night now in the bay that I’ve bought cycling oversocks in a bright pink! My toes were frozen on Friday while descending...
D&F 12-6-21
D&F 12/6/21 Greetings from hangover town, population: me. Friday meant whiskey and celebration with Helen for her birthday. Much fun was had, and a lot of...
D&F 11-28-21
D&F 11/28/21 This is my birthday weekend and I'm absolutely beat. Not much to send this week, but I'll make sure next week is extra special. Tonight I'm off...
D&F 11-21-21
D&F 11/21/21 This weekend is the start of a lovely little birthday holiday. Between books, bikes, and Berry, I'm set. In another time I would've taken eleven...
D&F 11-15-21
D&F 11/15/21 This week in therapy I spent a fair amount of time talking about how much it sucks that we’re likely headed for absolutely irreversible climate...
D&F 11-7-21
D&F 11/7/21 It was a long weekend with not one, but two parties. Saturday started with feeding a friend’s cat, then downing a baguette and heading to the...
D&F 10-31-21
D&F 10/31/21 It looks like it might be a sunny Halloween, even though as I write this it's quite grey out. I hope I can do a bit of bike riding this weekend...
D&F 10-23-21
D&F 10/23/21 The spice must flow! This is the weekend of Dune, a very important sci-fi book from my childhood. I grew up reading it, watching the David Lynch...
D&F 10-17-21
D&F 10/17/21 This week’s newsletter is brought to you by my childhood love of James Bond films, and my excitement for the new one this Sunday. The politics...
D&F 10-10-21
D&F 10/10/21 Boo! Spooky season is fully upon us and to get in the mood I recommend re-watching Over the Garden Wall, and reading some spooky stories. My...
D&F 10-3-21
D&F 10/3/21 Happy Paris Roubaix weekend, the hell of the north! If you’re not familiar, this bike race is one of the most famous, grueling, and brutal on the...
D&F 9-26-21
D&F 9/26/21 The skies are cloudy and it’s a chill day in Oakland. I’m realizing I might need more long sleeve cycling outfits than I currently own, but at...
D&F 9-20-21
D&F 9/20/21 We had a brief chill taste of fall this week in Oakland, and it was incredible. I love the fall, and having grown up in Texas it was even more of...
D&F 9-12-21
D&F 9/12/21 After a day of cycling and axe-throwing yesterday, I fell asleep at 10pm which meant this newsletter's delayed sending. I'm usually not asleep...
D&F 9-5-21
D&F 9/5/21 Happy long weekend to those of us in the US. I made mine even longer by taking next week off, and before you ask, no I don't plan to do much of...
D&F 8-30-21
D&F 8/30/21 Well, the smoke is here in the bay this weekend which may ruin any outdoor plans I had. It’s disappointing, but I also keep hoping climate change...
D&F 8/22/21
D&F 8/22/21 Yesterday marked the hardest bike ride I've been on. Drew and I rode from Sausalito up Mount Tam, and back around. It took us four hours of...
D&F 8/15/21
D&F 8/15/21 Summertime! I've only been swimming once so far this summer, but I have spent a fair amount of time sitting outside with a glass of wine in my...
D&F 8/8/21
D&F 8/8/21 My legs are beat! This is my first week of an outdoor training program to make me a bit faster up hills, and it was a tough one. Fortunately,...
D&F 8/1/21
D&F 8/1/21 Can you believe it’s August already? I was just twining how recent March 2020 still feels, helped in no small part by all the Tokyo 2020 signage...
D&F 7/25/21
D&F 7/25/21 It’s a real wine weekend! Friday ended with a nice trip to Ordinaire with my friend Soleil and tonight there’s an event at Brocc Cellars. I still...
D&F 7/18/21
D&F 7/18/21 Happy Sunday from me, a very exhausted writer. We had a long weekend at work so I did my longest ride ever followed by a brutal ride to SF and up...
D&F 7/11/21
D&F 7/11/21 I'm back from the wilderness! This weekend, I went with some friends to the Sierra mountains, and hiked to a lake. It was gorgeous, and we camped...
D&F 7/4/21
D&F 7/4/21 Happy 4th, I guess? In Oakland fireworks are such a regular occurrence that I fear this day as it usually sounds like a war zone on the holiday....
D&F 6/27/21
D&F 6/27/21 Happy Tour de France! Friday night late meant the beginning with a short women's course race "La Course," that ended in a really exciting sprint,...
D&F 6/20/21
D&F 6/20/21 Hoo boy, I am tired. This week was full of meetings, and helping a beloved friend move (hi Lena!). I kept choosing a book over going to bed at a...
D&F 06/12/21
D&F 06/12/21 It’s clearly less of a pandemic now than it was, at least in Oakland, because Saturday marked not one, but two get-togethers (outdoors), and...
D&F 6/6/21
D&F 6/6/21 This weekend marked my first back at an outdoor bar with some friends; smoke-infused laughs and cheers were had. The bar required a vaccination...
D&F 5-30-21
D&F 5/30/21 Greetings from my iPad, which is now my primary computer again until I discover if my quite wet MacBook will recover. I set out for St. Helena...
D&F 5/23/21
D&F 5/23/21 With a long week behind me, I was thrilled to get cocktails and German beer with a few friends on Friday afternoon; rounding out the evening with...
D&F 5-16-21
D&F 5/20/21 A short and late one today fresh from the text editor. Reader, I am tired today. Yesterday I took my bike into the city to ride with friend of...
D&F 5/9/21
D&F 5/9/21 It's hotting up here in the bay, with one friend reporting they even needed to use the AC today—nearly 80º! One of the things I find charming...
D&F 5/02/21
D&F 5/02/21 It’s a sunny weekend in the bay, and it’s hard to believe we’re almost halfway through 2021. My week included a dreaded “deep cleaning” at the...
D&F 4/25/21
D&F 4/25/21 Last weekend was rough for a number of reasons, after starting with a nice bike ride that ended in losing a good amount of blood. I bruised a few...
D & F Week Off
hi folks, I didn't have time or energy to write a newsletter this week due to a bike crash on Friday. I'm mostly ok, but pretty badly bruised and I've got a...
D&F 4/11/21
D&F 4/11/21 What’s the 411?! Do y’all remember when you could text Google? back in the days when they were all about “don’t be evil”? I do. Now, we all have...
D&F 4/04/21
D&F 4/04/21 What if the entire last year was an April fool's joke? A few friends have told me they imagine waking up from a bad dream one morning in March...
D&F 3/28/21
D&F 3/28/21 A crisp fresh breeze drifts through my windows and across my living room. I think, yes, it’s spring! The days a longer and it’s now the season...
D&F 3-21-21
D&F 3/21/21 Can you smell the spring equinox?! There was a hummingbird nest outside my house today, and Lena and I both agreed it was a sign of the spring....
D&F 3-14-21
D&F 3/14/21 drafts It’s midway through march, and I’m cautiously optimistic! This week marked news of a general > 16 y/o availability of vaccines in the...
D&F 3-7-21
D&F 3/7/21 This weekend almost felt normal again! I definitely feel a great deal of fear and worry still about COVID-19, but luckily I got to see my friend...
D&F 2-28-21
D&F 2/28/21 For me this weekend started with very sore legs, and a live show from the folks at Rude Tales of Magic. The show was a pretty bizarre and...