Author Archives: Rich Freggiaro

On Friday morning I did what some people consider my civic duty: I got a flu shot and a covid shot. The CDC recommends getting both at the same time. I didn’t read all the disclaimers in the pieces of paper they handed me, but I’m sure they mentioned lots of side effects. As IContinue reading “Estate Planning”

I promised I wouldn’t write about the election, and I’m keeping my promise. I’m going to let OTHER PEOPLE speak and write about the election without a single comment from me. Remember I’m just the piano player… #1 Jimmy Kimmel: “It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him and guess what? ItContinue reading “Cocoa and Cookies and Legos, Oh My!”

Back in 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, probably the shortest and least ambiguous ballot referendum in the state’s history. It simply added the following words to the State Constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California”. That’s it. No legal jargon, no economic impact statement, no taxContinue reading “A Marriage of Convenience”

Not only do the French have a different way of holding elections, but their attitude toward marital dalliances is a little looser than what one might expect from what has been a primarily Catholic country. Consider a pair of French films I watched while sipping Cote du Rhone vin rouge flying on Air France. ‘Antoinette’Continue reading “The French Way Partie Deux”

Sunday May 7, 2017. Stoker and I had just moved into our Malaucène rental house for the next month. We were doing our first tandem ride and were excited but uncertain about how such a long stay in a Provencal village was going to work out. If you’ve been reading you know the answer toContinue reading “The French Way”

The Rich Freggiaro Cycling Blog is mostly going to spend the next 100 days of election frenzy on the sidelines. I have too few readers to risk losing any of them in a vain attempt to influence their preference. But once in a while a pull quote from one of the candidates amuses me soContinue reading “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

I actually pay for on-line access to The Wall Street Journal. I expect The Journal to provide me a reasonably accurate and non-woke account of the news of the day. I expect to read editorials that I mostly agree with. Of course if you want to know what is going on in the world ofContinue reading “It’s Too Darn Hot”

…instead of cutting it off I started getting Covid on Wednesday July 3, while on our way home from Portland at the end of our Snake/Colombia River cruise. Diane had it too, which we confirmed on Thursday with our handy home test kits. I was really sick for 4 days, but started to feel betterContinue reading “Keeping My Head…”

Diane and I have just returned from a cruise from Lewiston to Astoria on the Snake and Colombia rivers. The highlight for me was the series of locks and dams.These 8 dams turn the lower part of the Snake and Colombia Rivers into a series of lakes each about 100 feet below the next, andContinue reading “Unlock the Guillotine”

Sometimes this blog is fun for me to write. Sometimes it is easy to write. Sometimes both. This is not one of those times. It is on Facebook now, so I suppose I can write about it here. I don’t know anything more than what Roberta posted on the Club FB Page. He was onContinue reading “Paul Butler, RIP”