From the monthly archives: July 2016

Book Review: Slaying the Badger

By On July 19, 2016 · 1 Comment

How much do you know about Greg Lemond?  Maybe you’re aware that he won a couple Tour de Frances back in the 1980s.  Perhaps you even heard the incredible story about how, right after winning his first Tour, his brother-in-law accidentally shot 30 pellets into his vital organs while hunting turkeys in California (no relation to Cheney), preventing any attempt to […]

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Into the Wild

By On July 9, 2016 · 1 Comment

To celebrate my brother Fred’s 10th birthday my grandparents took him on a trip to the wilds of Alaska. I was only 5, but I vividly remember Fred’s descriptions of waters teeming with marine life – whales, puffins, more bald eagles than you could count – and woodlands full of bears and moose. He brought […]

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