Ron S. Doyle
5280 Magazine – November 2008 – "Riding the Rails"
(from 5280 Magazine, November 2008, page 31) Riding the Rails Can RTD keep up with its success? If America is addicted to cars, Denver appears to have been in rehab. Fed up with high gas prices and commuter congestion—and, perhaps, possessing a desire to cut their carbon emissions—metro area residents have been taking public transportation [...]
5280 Magazine – October 2008 – "Dealer's Wheels"
(from 5280 Magazine, October 2008, page 34) Dealers’ Wheels Our 10-step plan to survive the world’s largest consumer bike expo. When 10,000 cyclophiles are let loose at the annual Subaru Denver VeloSwap, gearheaded pandemonium ensues. The consumer trade show and flea market offers 400-plus vendors selling gear, pros wandering through the crowd, and cycling companies [...]
"Development of Portable Multimedia Content for Secondary At-Risk Learning: The Handheld Lecture" – May 2008
Abstract Boulder Preparatory High School serves a wide range of students; drastically different skill, motivational, attendance, and age factors join together in the same classrooms. Two major obstacles to learner success are transient attendance rates and difficulty processing information. Students frequently miss presentation of critical course information or lack comprehension at first exposure to new [...]
"Cable in the Crib: A Systematic Review of Screen Media and its Effect on Children" – November 2007
Introduction The octogenarian woman coos with pride as my infant’s eyes fix on the wide screen television in her living room. Immediately, however, her granddaughter enters the room and furiously clicks at the television remote. The screen goes black as the mother and daughter argue in their native Persian dialect. This argument continues across America. [...]
Caye Caulker, Belize
Everything here-from the starfish, the mangroves, even the island’s shape-makes me thing of limbs: fingers, toes, legs, arms, branches, roots, etc. And I seem to have lost my shoes. Cancún and Isla Mujeres linger only vaguely in my mind; all my attention now surrounds my feet. The thick padded soles of the locals here have [...]
"The Bus Driver and Skeleton Smile" – Walkabout – 2006
You always feel like you have a great deal of unused energy that you haven’t turned to your advantage. Waking up early to catch the #65 lets you read when you would otherwise be driving. You assure skeptical others that it’s the only time of day when you feel like royalty, being driven by someone [...]
"An Introduction to the Michigan Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)" – October 2005
Self-report inventories and other objective assessments are widely used by psychological professionals. These tests offer clinicians a cost-effective and efficient means for diagnosing individuals beyond more subjective methods such as projective tests or pure clinical judgment. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and its successor, the MMPI-2, remain one of the most popular self-report assessments available. [...]
World Naked Bike Ride Promotional Emails – 2005
World Naked Bike Ride – Boulder, CO Please scroll down for longer writing samples. The following clips were delivered over three months to email list subscribers. Clips were also frequently used to promote the ride on various bicycling message groups, blogs, and local Boulder websites. Because you’re sick and tired of letting squirrels have all [...]
"Tiger Lady" – Fiction – 2005
Some days, as she grasps the steel handrail to board the bus, I remember the first time I noticed her scars—the jagged, pale parallel stripes on both her obsidian cheeks. I distinctly recall the metallic taste of autonomic empathy, as I moved my tongue around my mouth in search for dirty nickels, loosened teeth or [...]
"Iris & Oraserrata" – Short Story Fiction – 2005
To experiment, I spend two weeks in bed practicing stillness. I allow myself to move twice each day: twenty minutes in the morning to floss and stretch my knees; twenty minutes in the late afternoon for an exchange of fluids in the form of a trip to the bathroom and a low calorie, vitamin-fortified meal [...]
