They rode on.

This post is not about the amusing/appalling mayor of Toronto, I swear; but for reasons you'll understand shortly, I have to open with ...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a short note on Facebook about just how bad Prometheus was.  To wit: Movie review: Prometheus sucks!!!!!!!...

Back in 1977, one fine Friday night before a SAMI (Saturday Morning Inspection), having finished polishing the floor, making the quarter-bou...

It's only appropriate that the last post I made here worried that RIM was on the rim.  This post--and probably quite a few to follow--wi...

Hmmm.  As I sit in the Richmond airport at 8:00 a.m., kicking myself, the veteran standby-flight traveler, for not knowing better than to sh...

Update: Okay, the original post is still below, but I find I need to apologize to those who know me and know my dog.  I am so sorry for scar...

As a youth, I actually had little to say, but it didn't keep me from talking a lot. When I consider the difference between me now and m...

These are worth watching.  All three.  Either via the embeds below, or directly through their Vimeo post . 3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, ...

Good reading is something I only wish I had time for these days.  Thanks to my wife, there's no shortage of it.  Thanks to my current po...

An observation seeded by and elided from an e-mail I had to send today. Improvement has three steps: 1) recognizing where it’s possible, 2...

The summer of 1971, I was 11 years old.  Sixth grade was behind me.  "Middle school" loomed ahead.  Both parents worked.  I and my...

I posted this months ago, but a critical piece of it was misunderstood, and so I took it down.  The misreading behind that should no longer ...

I played golf last week.  First round I've played in Richmond, after living here almost two years.  Rotary Club tournament.  Captain...

Funny how I get my news these days.  I was skydiving all day Saturday and Sunday (eleven jumps, all with people new to the sport), so my fir...

For the past two years, busy opening a new campus of a Level V, SACS-accredited school, I've had little time to write here. But my lov...

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you h...

I spent most of the day yesterday blessed by an uncommonly beautiful merging of two worlds, introducing new family to old friends without ...

This is not for the faint of heart. Phoenix-Fly: The Need 4 Speed from Phoenix Fly on Vimeo .

Yeah, unlike my friend Connelly, I still want nothing to do with free climbing radio towers unless intentionally "falling" off is ...

I'm afraid of heights.  There.  I said it up front. Yeah, I've summitted three Fourteeners, and I teach skydiving almost every wee...

I began blogging in earnest in 2007, inspired, largely, by my cousin, Barry, over at Enrevanche . Blogging was, in some ways my most import...

"Any one of us who is lucky enough to have a job today must worry about losing it. This Labor Day, we might salute the millions of Ame...

And really, really well at that.  Of course I knew this when I married her. :-)  It's quiet here at They Rode On, but if you like readin...

Reflections on the reality of searching for a job with a degree in the humanities: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/mama_phd/more_on_th...

I cannot believe no one has yet compared the growing ecological disaster in the gulf to Three Mile Island .  Different energy source, yes, b...

is a bad movie. I want that two hours of my life back. Really.

As we age, I think we sometimes tend to devalue the philosophers that shaped us.  Having found them in our youth, we may think of them as so...

Okay.  I should be above this, I know.  And I have to say that Tiger's public apology--while hardly worthy of monopolizing the evening n...

Nothing less than a wonder To embrace the spoken word again As recognition of an undeniable is Rather than wilting wish For what will no...

Being married to a self-proclaimed "foodie" is a beautiful thing.  I hardly know where to begin. Eating Out It's a given th...