The champions
Winning your first championship in Pomona at the NHRA Finals…. Could there be ANYTHING better in the wonderful world of drag racing? Congratulations to the Super Stock NHRA world champion […]
1975
My was a motorcycle guy forever. His dad, my Grampa Fred, took his 26″ Schwinn, cut it down, and put a Whizzer Motorbike kit on it when dad was nine, […]
One decade at a time
It’s crazy to me, how quickly the last 10 years have gone by. Watching one of your favorite people grow from a baby to a toddler to a child to […]
July 10
I don’t think it’s any kind of coincidence that my grandma, Ann Skelley, and Arlene Johnson were born on this very same day. Arlene is younger by a bunch than […]
I learned it by watching you
I’m sure the pages exist somewhere, but at present, I have no idea where they are. My first attempt at writing fiction was a strange little fantasy-dive into the life […]
Two-for-one
EppingBristol has been a thing. And I have loved every minute. Back here at the racetrack where it all began for me in 2007 (which feels like way longer ago […]
Serendipity
Serendipity. I’ve been thinking a lot about that phenomenon this weekend. Drag racing is goal-oriented, obviously. There is a very clear target out here – we all want to win […]
Remembering John Jodauga
My cubicle was catty-corner to his, and on my first day as an associate editor at National Dragster, I remember watching him out of the corner of my eye. I […]
It’s so good to be back
A weird thing happens to me in the off-season – I start thinking, maybe I’m not cut out for this. Maybe I’m too old and too tired to keep up. […]
The observer
I snuck this photo of my dad in 2010. We were out to dinner at Macaroni Grill, which he loved because they would give you a bottle of wine and […]
Kelly Wade 