M. Evan Wolkenstein

Ten minutes later, I was wearing an outfit cobbled together from the lost-and-found: a sweatshirt two sizes too small, running shorts, and a baseball cap with the school’s logo. On that run, we talked about the same thing we used to talk about when he was my student and I was his teacher: reaching your goals, overcoming fear, being true to yourself. And it was the same running route, too: Scott Street. Presidio. Marina. The hill. That hill, stretching from the bay to the Paci

Back in February, blogger Howie Chong wrote a post on bike helmets that blew my mind. So to speak. It was not about how helmets save lives. It was partially about how helmets may increase injuries. But that’s not what struck me. What I found fascinating was, as Chong points out, how quickly people criticize, even ridicule non-helmet wearers. And way out proportion to the need for the criticism. Truth is, as a scooter rider, I’ve experienced the way people will hurl a “get a h