Vagina!
So there’s been a lot of talk about vaginas lately, ever since Lisa Brown got barred from speaking at the Michigan House of Representatives back in June. Or should I say, Vaginas (and yeah, I’m gonna...
View ArticleMarcia’s Blog: The Seven-Year Training Plan
Last week, right as I was entering the one-month countdown to the ride, I decided it was time to start training.For me, that meant making sure I started getting some longer bike rides in each week. I...
View ArticleMarcia’s Blog: Training for 100 Miles
One month from today I’ll be undertaking my first Century. For those not in the know, that’s riding a bicycle 100 miles in a day. I realize a lot of folks wonder why the hell someone would decide to...
View ArticleMarcia’s Blog: Two If By Beer
May 25, 2013 Last week I put new tires on. It had been a rougher training week than I anticipated; the weather made me put off my first 50-miler (fifteen minute break at the halfway). Then work and...
View ArticleMarcia’s Blog: About My Butt
(I think the following entry might be best read in the voice of Bill Cosby, but that’s just a suggestion.) People always ask about my butt. I suppose it makes sense, because folks who don’t cycle...
View ArticleMarcia’s Blog: 24 Hour Countdown
6:47pm, Saturday June 1st. We’re driving out to Woodstock, IL, where I’ll spend the night in order to be getting on the road about 24 hours from now. Rain is sheeting down, making visibility poor, and...
View ArticleMarcia’s Blog: My First Century
There’s this movie, The Quick and the Dead, with Sharon Stone, that came out a number of years back. Sharon ends up in a showdown in cliché old west style with Gene Hackman who is some type of shooting...
View ArticleEditorial: Unpacking Michigan’s Chilling New “Rape Insurance” Law
“Prepare to be enraged,” a friend said, when I told her I hadn’t yet read all the details of Michigan’s newly passed “rape insurance” law. When I got the basics—Michigan insurance companies would now...
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