Every year about right now I have this vulnerable feeling like, “Maybe no one will join my Atlanta Bike Challenge team for BikeTober.” And as an introvert, this is not a good feeling! But every […]
Author: Pattie Baker
Writer, street photographer, urban farmer, and League Cycling Instructor learning as I grow and traveling at the speed of bike. Peace Corps Uganda invitee (June 2020, delayed due to COVID-19 pandemic). Mensa member. See books on Amazon in all global markets (USA link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattie-Baker/e/B005JBN7ZK).
Louder, for the People in the Back
This is the exact spot where I was yesterday when the news was announced that the killing of an innocent black woman, in the privacy of her home, was not a crime. And so now, […]
Bicycle Mayor Update
As I was riding a new Model Mile path in my region this week (and taking my usual daily Leap of Faith), I thought about the provocative Georgia Bike Summit I attended online last week […]
More than 200 People Now Have Basic Bike Skills Education
In just three months, more than 200 people have downloaded or participated via daily text in the class I created to provide basic bike skills education remotely during this global pandemic and the biggest bike […]
A Climate of Change
I had an hour between sessions at the Georgia Bike Summit and I hopped on my bike and zipped to the supermarket (aware of my privilege to have one so close by and to be […]
“A Little Birdie Told Me”
I just ordered this Birdie alarm device because a dangerous-by-design feature has recently been added along the multiuse path in the parks in my city that creates specific new vulnerabilities especially for women and girls […]
Zooming — on Bike, and at the Georgia Bike Summit
Fires. Floods. Disease. Daily barrages of bad news. It’s heavy, and it’s wearing on us. It’s wearing on me. My bike rides are my path forward to the change I want to see; my prayer […]
GlobalBike
This. This. This. See GlobalBike’s impact page here. This is what I want to do. I am working towards it.
