Last week, circumstances nudged me inside the Greenlink transit center and onto a Greenlink bus for the very first time. Six fares, four drivers and two routes later, here’s what I have to report: Greenlink buses are clean, comfortable, on time, reasonably priced and conveniently scheduled. Most Greenlink bus passengers appear to be unwell, handicapped, […]
I checked into my room at the Tunnel Road Motel 6 in Asheville yesterday afternoon expecting an overnight low of 58 degrees. The order of events was to have been dinner, movie, sleep, joyous reunion with sub-60 mountain air, breakfast, more sub-60 mountain air. This morning, however, the temperature had dropped to only 65, so […]
Three unrelated topics today … 1.) You’ve heard of “wilding,” I’m sure, a term that came into general use during the 1989 Central Park Jogger trial. People involved in wildings – the perpetrators, not the victims – enter a psychotic flow state, as I understand it. Mob mentality. It’s a bad thing. There’s a wilding […]
