Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
DECEMBER 14, 2019 – Impeachment can wait. Minnesota is lucky I’m not a highway patrolman. If I were, I’d have every other car pulled over for one infraction or another—speeding, following too closely, failure to signal, failure to yield, failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, texting while driving. If I …
NOVEMBER 5, 2019 – Despite urban “combat driving conditions,” it was in the country where Sunday evening I experienced two close calls. In each case, reflex avoided a high-impact collision. Both incidents left me wondering whether the total absence of distractions was a deciding factor. The first occurred on US Highway 8 across rural western …