Author Archives: Rich Freggiaro

My tour guide/friend Gerry must have some time on his hands, even though he has a full slate of 2025 tours to prepare for. He has been playing around with ChatGPT and decided to ask it to tell him about my blog. One second later (!) this is what popped up… Rich Freggiaro’s cycling blogContinue reading “How Scary Is This?”

Actually it was 4 dogs in 3 places, all first time encounters. After walking Luke the Dog and doing a Honey Do piece of yard work, around noon I decided to go out for a short spin to try my new wheels. More on these light weight beauties later after I have a chance toContinue reading “Three Dog Day”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” Keats composed Ode to a Grecian Urn, making the point that its wonderous and delicate beauty would speak to all future generations. I don’t think he would have felt the the same way about this…Continue reading “Ode to a Duct Taped Banana”

First it was Legos and coloring books and cookies and cocoa. Then came withholding sex and shaving heads. And now this: Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun spoke to MSNBC host Joy Reid on Friday about ways liberals who are devastated with Trump’s re-election this week can cope with news, including separating fromContinue reading “Thanksgiving? No Thanks…”

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?”