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Same blood test, different results: Why isn’t this common thyroid screening reliable?

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Same blood test, different results: Why isn’t this common thyroid screening reliable?

My body was failing under load. In searching for answers, I uncovered something far larger than my own diagnoses.

Harley's V-Rod compared to Ducati's Diavel - a detailed rider's review

Motorcycles — Machines and Motivations

Harley's V-Rod compared to Ducati's Diavel - a detailed rider's review

These bikes are about as similar as a rock song from the 1980s and an upbeat classical movement. The real myth isn’t which one is better — it’s that they belong in the same category at all.

Adrenaline as Architecture

Adrenaline as Architecture

Although this did give a better shot, the truth is closer to this: hanging out of a truck at 50 miles an hour was just flat-out FUN. No harness. No backup plan. No cares. It wasn’t just ignoring risk, it was staring it down and making it blink first.

The Groundwork

I wasn’t comfortable in a saddle. I preferred dropping into their bodies, moving them with excitement and slowing them with calm. What I was really learning was regulation long before I knew the word.

The Architecture of Containment

The Architecture of Containment

The lesson wasn’t about television. It was about containment. About how systems trained agency to behave. I chose not to.

World Relay Highlights Need for Women's Gear

Motorcycles — Machines and Motivations

World Relay Highlights Need for Women's Gear

As women riders circle the globe in a relay ride, they reveal how motorcycle manufacturers continue to design gear for men, leaving women underserved in terms of fit, safety, and function.

Motorcycles — Machines and Motivations

FITTING IN

Women riders describe how motorcycle gear built around male bodies routinely fails women on fit, safety, and function—and why manufacturers continue to miss a growing market.

The Four Most Dangerous Words for a Motorcycle Rider

Motorcycles — Machines and Motivations

The Four Most Dangerous Words for a Motorcycle Rider

Non-riders are constantly approaching me to ask about my bike and oftentimes tell me how dangerous it is. They will share stories of how their brother/uncle/friend/neighbor had ‘horrible motorcycle accidents’, feeling a need to include gory bodily injury details, and usually wrapping it up with a stern

Feral Dog Series #1: From Moxie to Prudence

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Feral Dog Series #1: From Moxie to Prudence

No happy dog or greetings begging to be petted, just an air of intensity telling me to GET OUT.

No Surface, Only Depth

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No Surface, Only Depth

Impossible boundaries define the space between us, until shared grief creates the smallest, most fragile overlap.