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In Bro'd Rage Part I , I left off with my trip to Hartford Police Department HQ to file a report. I later sat down and wrote a detailed ...

The Trinity Admissions Gate: area of my initial encounter with the wrong-way driver. Last Friday morning, I was commuting to my job at...

Before: My bike was oh-so-sleek. It seems my heavy hoisting ways have caught up with me, in the form of a pair of inguinal hernias. Thi...

At around 1PM on Sunday afternoon, I had serious need for a break, a chance to get out of the house and two events that sounded appealing. ...

On the evening of October 9, I drove my 1996 Buick Regal to East Hartford, handed over the title and keys and left with my registration and ...

Not really.  We love Chris.  But I did take a compromising picture of him on the way back from Middlefield.  Although we didn't have the...

Dario sends this along to be posted: Dear Tony, Thank you for posting my response to the NPR segment dealing with bicycle cultur...

The other day marked my completion of 38 trips around the sun. While not the birthday party type, I'm more than happy to use it as a ...

For the second Tuesday in a row, we had another unseason- ably warm weather forecast, so I went ahead and followed the basic formula that h...

Last Tuesday afternoon greeted me with a combination of mild weather and several errands to run. I had some potential carpentry work to scou...

This morning, I headed out on the cargo bike to run some errands, starting with a trip to the DMV office in Wethersfield to renew the lapsed...

The stock wheels on my Yuba Mundo had served me well for the umpteen months I had been riding the bike full time, and I had not been particu...

There was a lot of snow on my roof, with 3-4 foot drifts on the southern side. With the recent rash of buildings collapsing in Connecticut,...