Faith and Public Policy—a Sunday address to a Unitarian Universalist congregation in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. There’s nothing like a dose of Dostoevsky in the morning.
—January 16, 2005

Ordinary Madness: deep in the pack at Leadville—A middle-aged man gets off the couch to attempt one of the most heinous mountain bike races in the United States, the Leadville Trail 100.
—previously unpublished, September, 1996

Sherlock Holmes and the femme fatale—Victorian Britain may be remembered for prudishness as much as for the supremacy of its empire and machine age industry. The prudishness was only a veneer. Behind it, repressed things steamed and hissed.
—2006

The Great Bureaucrat—Notes from the field regarding the most devastating variety of the genus Bureaucratus.
—2000