So Mother Nature gave us a nice tease today — temperatures reached 65F (18C) today, under partially cloudy but revealing-more-sun skies. What was on this biker’s mind?
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Yearly Archives: 2016
Acts of Caring Hold the Marriage Together
I was reading a blog that I occasionally check out. It is very popular and a money-maker for the author. The blog is “Single Dad Laughing.”
A series of posts on his blog were about how he “blew” two marriages. He described things that he did that undermined his relationship with his wife and how those acts and behaviors eventually led to the demise of his marriages.
I am a very old-school believer in what marriage really means — a bond of love, caring, and being “one” together. When my man and I married, both of us knew it was right, and we were in love. But so was the case for the author of the blog that I am referencing. He, too, was in love with his wife, and then things slipped and eventually not one, but two marriages ended.
How do my spouse and I prevent that from happening to us?
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Wearing Jeans with Boots
I continue to be amazed that the web page that I posted six years ago, “Wearing Jeans with Boots” would continue to be the most popular page on my website of all time. Statistics reveal that this one page out of 707 receives over 20% of the daily visits to my site.
99% of these visits are driven by search engines. When looking at the questions entered in search engines, the #1 question that is searched is,
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Chippewa Engineer Boots on Cops
I received a copy of the latest edition of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle police magazine the other day. The front cover and inside spread featured an article about the 105th anniversary of the Milwaukee Police Motorcycle Unit.
The article had a few photos of the large unit lined up on their Harley police bikes at the Harley-Davidson motorcycle museum in Milwaukee. What boots were the cops wearing?
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Coming Out By Another Ordinary Guy Who Rides
I have written on this blog fairly often that I feel that I am just a regular guy, a motorcycle rider, one who chooses to wear leather garments regularly (rather than just as a costume or once-a-year events), and a guy who happens to be gay.
I received an email from a reader, a fellow biker, and who recently came out. He explained his feelings to me. With his permission, here is what he said–
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A Booted Man
In thinking about what to write as I restart my musings on this blog, I reflect on what inspired my website’s name … bootedman.com.
It is amusing to think back to 2004 when I was diligently cataloging my boot collection, taking low-res digital photos of my boots, and using a primitive HTML coding processor offered by my ISP at the time (my cable TV provider.) As I was developing that crude first-attempt website, I had a number of conversations with Larry of hotboots.com fame, and his exceptionally creative and technically adept husband, Bill.
Bill urged me to create my very own website, on my own domain, and suggested ways that I could improve my web-building techniques.
So there I was, thinking to myself, “what web domain name would work for what I want to do, and what is not already taken?” I thought long and hard about myself…
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Back In the Bloggin’ Saddle
I got my boots on and am back in the bloggin’ saddle.
Thank you, though, for this brief break, brought to you by…
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Painful Blog Break
I never like to do this, but from time to time I must. I will be taking about a two-week break from blogging.
Why?
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Bootless
The past few days while housebound due to insurmountable mounds of snow, I have been teleworking. It has been a very productive but busy time for me. So while working from my home office, what boots are on my feet?
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The Right Boots for a Remission of Smiles
As I noted in my most recent post, the geographic region where I live was in the bulls-eye of a major snowstorm. Panting media types breathlessly exclaimed, “a storm of epic proportions!”
So how did we fare?
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