August 26, 2021 – Bike to End Division

How Abruptly Plans Shatter in Oconto, WI (or Anywhere, USA)

ByJohn Poplett August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

Last night in my Econo Lodge motel room, here in Oconto, WI, I peeled a thick rubbery section of skin from the bottom of my surgically repaired left foot. “Uh, oh,”, I thought. I wrenched it in front of me to get a view of the bottom of the foot, which didn’t really work. I…

First Inaugural Charity Ride

How Quickly Fear, the Quicksand of the Psyche, Can Drown You

ByJohn Poplett August 26, 2021August 26, 2021

I intended to use this trip to meditate on fear. To that purpose, I was far from cheated. I was flabbergasted by own dread, how each evening it reached a pitch and subsided somewhat in the morning when the looming, practical necessity of checking out a motel room or my AirBnb lodging forced that down…