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...