Less than a month after I stopped writing my first blog, Sitting In, the editors or the editor or someone asked me to start another. I said sure, okay, but only if I could make this one different — not just stories but maybe stories that were shorter, more episodic, or maybe only episodic, and maybe sometimes I could forget about storytelling and write instead about trends or news or products I liked. We called it The Selection, and I wrote the first one about a lady stopping me on a ride to ask me to look out for her lost dogs. I still don’t really know what the blog is about anymore than I did when I first described it, and in the mix of all that it is, I ended up writing more stories than I figured I would. Here are some that seem to me to have worked out okay.

All Is Calm  · ·  The Answer I Deserved  · ·  The Change  · ·  Continuing Education  · ·  Deluge  · ·   Did That Ride Count?  · ·  Do the Ride  · ·  Errata  · ·  Finally ATMO  · ·   Here is Something  · ·  Hitting My Zones  · ·  How to Choose a Bike  · ·  How to Own a Bike  · ·   I Bought a Bike  · ·  I Don’t Train  · ·  I’m Home  · ·  The Insurrection of Connection  · ·  Isn’t This Great?  · ·  The Life of Me  · ·  Like This  · ·  No Pressure  · ·  Of Course  · ·   Oh Yeah, That  · ·  Okay on a Bike  · ·  Pack, Singular  · ·  The Reason Rides End  · ·  The Right Word  · ·  Road Sines  · ·
So Heralded  · ·  Some Lore of Yore  · ·  The Spring Scouting Report  · ·  Straight Talk  · ·   Such Primality  · ·
Taking My Rip at It  · ·  Thank You, Joe LeMond  · ·  Too Many Bikes?  · ·  Tortuous  · ·  The Traffic Report  · ·  Training Race, Sunday, March 2  · ·  Uh  · ·  The Way of the Way  · ·  What I Mean  · ·  What I Remember  · ·  What Would Your Bike Think?  · ·  When Thanksgiving Is Over