In early 1998, I got the call. 1998 Honda VFR #195, the 5th generation of the model, had landed at the dealership and was being assembled.
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Wandering Between the LinesI completed a reflective brand audit exercise – an opportunity to examine not just what I do, but how I consistently show up across different parts of my life and work.
Bringing My True Self to the Table: A Personal Brand Reflection Read More »
Misfit Toys & Mental DetoursA Quick Guide to the Blog’s Backroads and Side Trails When I first started building this blog, I didn’t set out with a map.I set out with a direction: wander, wonder, and write the results. Along the way as I started a running list of topics I wanted to write about, certain patterns began to
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Misfit Toys & Mental DetoursThe GPz became my passport to everything beyond the map’s edge. Schoharie County’s back roads. Hidden corners of the Catskills. Southern slices of the Adirondacks. Every weekend, and plenty of weekday evenings, I’d be out somewhere new.
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Wandering Between the LinesThe first bike that was truly mine came from a high school classmate. I don’t remember the asking price – only that it was just close enough to what I had, and that the deal was done quickly. I pushed it home the length of Walden Park, our subdivision, feeling equal parts proud and unsure.
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Wandering Between the LinesThis post kicks off Wandering Between the Lines – an ongoing series of motorcycle travel stories about a life spent chasing curiosity on two wheels. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, and part tribute to the unpredictable beauty of motorcycling – especially when paired with a tent, a map you mostly ignore, and a few good
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Wandering Between the LinesBuilding thisisonlyatest.com with AI as my copilot was an experiment — one that paid off. But like any road trip, the quality of the journey depends on the directions you feed into the GPS. Here are some of the actual AI prompts I used — the ones that got results, kept me moving, and occasionally
🧠 AI Prompts That Actually Worked (And a Few That Took a Detour) Read More »
Misfit Toys & Mental DetoursWhen I set out to build thisisonlyatest.com, I had a vision: a space to share the rides, projects, and reflections that come with wandering, wondering, and writing the results. What I didn’t have was a perfectly mapped route to get there. I knew the broad strokes — WordPress, Astra, a clean aesthetic — but like
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Misfit Toys & Mental DetoursAnd it started with spam, so much spam. Back in the early 2000s — the dial-up days, when inboxes wheezed like modems and spam flowed as freely as coffee in the NOC — I was leading the IT team for a family-owned business with a strong DIY culture. Strong enough, in fact, that when I
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Bits, Bytes, and Burnt FingersAccidental symmetry, courtesy of the FDR Sometimes the best photos aren’t planned — they’re lucky stumbles at 40 mph, framed by tinted windows and half a Negroni buzz. This one landed just right on a ride back to the hotel after a night of food, poetry, and cocktails in the East Village. The city blurs
