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Continue reading →: Tour du Jour Training
For the past two years, I’ve ridden on the MS Society Tour du Jour, a sponsored ride along the Peninsula, with cyclists from Stanford C-Ya!. In previous years, the weeks leading up to the ride, we often got together for some training rides. While I will not be making the…
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Continue reading →: Tales from the Teahouse
A Place Like Cheers Over the three years that I was manager, I was happy to see that the establishment had become a place where people knew your name and came to enjoy the ambiance and atmosphere. Unlike the more stuffy eating locales on campus, such as the CoHo or…
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Continue reading →: Hair
The length and style of your hair often determines how you remember an important event or time in your life. When you see a picture of yourself from the past, the most distinguishing feature of you, aside from your clothes or glasses, is your hair. If it was long, a…
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Continue reading →: Journal Writing
There’s one lesson to be learned from reading this article: Write in a journal! I’ve been writing in a journal since I was in ninth grade. The earliest dated entry was January 18, 1990, which is over ten years ago (today, my journal weighs in at over 9 megabytes)! Because…
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Continue reading →: Four-Leaf Clovers
Four-Leaf Clovers, fact or fiction? The finder of one of these rare flowers is said to have found good luck and fortune. Four-Leaf Clovers, fact or fiction? The finder of one of these rare flowers is said to have found good luck and fortune. Have you ever found a four-leaf…
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Continue reading →: Digicam History
During my travels to France my third year at Stanford University, I had brought along my family’s film-based camera. The first camera that I could call my own was digital, an Agfa ePhoto 1680 (pictured below). The 1680 is a 1.3 megapixel camera with a very handy swivel lens design…
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Continue reading →: Nicole Freedman's Olympic Birthday
On May 21, 2000 at 7:30 pm, Nicole’s friends congregated at 33 Roosevelt Circle, the current home of Nicole’s Odwalla Van-House, to celebrate her triumph at Nationals — which garnered her an automatic Olympic berth — and her “pre-30th” 28th birthday. Over song and drink, we marveled at Nicole’s pedal…






