Cut cable: a cautionary tale

My husband’s bike was stolen from the parking garage at work last week—a bad start to the Labor Day weekend. Bike is his primary mode of transportation but he also rides just for the pleasure of it. As he put it, he’s in mourning for his lost Specialized Tricross, but there is also the feeling…

Index card art

  My friend, Cathy, who knows that I’m an aficionado of index cards, visited the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. She found an artist who tracked his index card to-do list for 180 days and compiled the cards into art.

Jack & the broomstick

Jack is a man who has staked out a spot under the 395 overpass on Joyce Street near Army Navy Drive in Arlington. He seems to live out of a shopping cart. While he keeps to himself, I’ve stopped and spoken to him a few times, which is how I learned his name. When asked…