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Balance, Focus, Correction

Posted on June 1, 2010
Balance, Focus, Correction
In the past couple of months since deciding to become a motorsports athlete (!) I've been struck time and again how driving a motorcycle brings my attention to the spiritual path.

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Touring the BMW Performance Center

Posted on May 25, 2010
Touring the BMW Performance Center
This video starts with a tour of the Center, then takes us outside to watch M-series drivers on the automobile course. Later we go out to the motorcycle off-road course where Motorrad Instructor Jim Millard describes the activities and skills to be learned by navigating through gravel, sand, ruts and ditches.

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Meet These Folks

Shiny Diner, Good Samaritan, Buckeye State

Posted on May 20, 2010
Shiny Diner, Good Samaritan, Buckeye State
As a basketball-bellied man ambled out of the shop I said, "I bet you don't have any motorcycle helmets here, do you?" When he smiled, his eyes became slits like mine always do, "I bet you I do!"

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Speaking Engagements

Social Media: Ethics & Best Practices for Attorneys

Posted on May 10, 2010
Social Media: Ethics & Best Practices for Attorneys
Like financial professionals, attorneys bear the burden of using good sense and propriety online.  Would that everyone bore a similar burden! (but I digress).

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Newtonian Physics and Balancing a Motorcycle

Posted on May 3, 2010
Newtonian Physics and Balancing a Motorcycle
An experienced biker, my brother's been telling me to try the BMW 650 and I’ve hesitated because of its height. I’m a new rider with a 28? inseam and I WANT MY FEET ON THE GROUND! He, like other experienced riders, poo-poos this preference, saying, “If you get both feet on the ground you’ll develop bad riding habits that require both feet on the ground…if you can ride dirt bike style and stop with one foot you can ride anything.”

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Musings

April Road Books

Posted on April 24, 2010
April Road Books
This travel blog will feature books about the regions I'll travel this summer along with those on motorcycles, women in mid-life with a dose of wanderlust, and whatever else I think fits the theme. Up this month: Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, Tales of a Female Nomad, Lincoln Highway, and The Cactus Eaters.

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April Book Lust: Special Travel Edition

Posted on April 22, 2010
April Book Lust: Special Travel Edition

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Events

Where To?

Posted on April 14, 2010
Where To?
Details are sketchy, but I know I'm leaving Charlotte, NC on 6/26/10 and passing through Cheyenne, WY on 7/8-9 with the Conga III ride to benefit breast cancer research. Please weigh in on tourist kitsch stops coming or going.

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What, I’m Part of a Trend?

Posted on April 8, 2010
What, I’m Part of a Trend?
Seems may women "of a certain age" are jumping on bikes; 23% of all bikes are sold to the XY set.Tattoos optional! Here's a piece from CBS on the phenomenon.

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March Book Lust

Posted on March 15, 2010
March Book Lust
Big news: I'm writing a book with Matt Davio called Tradeoffs: Leveraging the Longs & Shorts of Life. We'll use the language and practices of those who trade for a living to frame life's tradeoffs: time for money,  freedom for convention,  risk for reward, and money for goods and services.

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