30 Apr 2009
Hello friends, Bianchi and I need your help! This June, we’re riding in a 62.5-mile charity bike race through Buffalo, N.Y. and we’re sweating bullets because … well … neither of us has begun fundraising. Please check out my Ride for Roswell homepage and read my fundraising letter. For those of you accustomed to verbose Lance posts, I [...]
29 Apr 2009
Dear Heelya’s students, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to return your letters. They’ve sat in a pile on my kitchen table for days now. I’ve read them and re-read them so many times while eating my morning cereal that I’ve memorized many of your sentiments. Per your request, I’m posting your last correspondences [...]
Posted in Buffalo, drool, florida, Heelya, humanity, Johnny Cash, Keyshia Cole, kiddos, pen pals, pugs, Ro, snakes, St. Petersburg by: heidi
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27 Apr 2009
This ain’t me, but if it were, I’d be fine with it. The hair! The pug! The ankle socks! The Mary Janes! I wish this chick lived in St. Pete so we could kick it over beer and peanuts. I wish I hadn’t just happened upon this picture while randomly searching for PUGS on Flickr. [...]
Posted in Dad, farmers, florida, homesickness, Joe, Lake Erie, masking tape, mom, Nana, Norm the grape farmer, North Collins, pugs, St. Pete, Western NY by: heidi
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22 Apr 2009
This is my 100th post. It’s a post I started at midnight about two weeks ago but fell asleep in the middle of writing. When I woke up the next morning, I was 27 years old, had a 9 a.m. phone interview with a mathematician from Maine, a cover story due about a ballet dancer [...]
Posted in Bianchi, bicycling, Buffalo, d-bags, Heelya, homesickness, Joe, love, mushy anecdotes, pk, Rattletrap Car, Ro, Tour de France, wedding pomp by: heidi
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03 Apr 2009
Meet my new wheels. She’s a real Bianchi. Light as a feather and the color of a robin’s egg, my Bianchi came from Salvation Army. She’s got pizza-cutter tires and handlebars shaped like my pug’s tail. When I wedged her into the front seat of my Honda Civic, she contorted into a kind of fetal [...]
Posted in awkwardness, Bianchi, bicycling, biking, Christie Brinkley, debit cards, Goodwill Hunting, Heelya, humanity, kindness, Men at Work, Ro, St. Pete, St. Petersburg, Tonya Harding, Tour de France by: heidi
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