photo courtesy of Emmett McNair Meet Emmett McNair. In fact, you may have already ridden bikes with him investigating the Gulch in Downtown Atlanta or finding the Flint River headwaters or learning about civil rights […]
Author: Pattie Baker
Writer, street photographer, urban farmer, and League Cycling Instructor (#5382), learning as I grow and traveling at the speed of bike. Peace Corps Uganda invitee (June 2020, delayed due to COVID-19). Mensa member. Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor. See books on Amazon in all global markets (USA link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattie-Baker/e/B005JBN7ZK).
Almost Done
I started writing my new book 16 days ago. Draft one will be done this week (just in time for March FORTH, my fave day of the year, on which I always do something new […]
Am “Taking Ten” for Pure Imagination
I’m not finding the time or head space to work on my personal passion project — my next book, a work of fiction for middle school children titled Slow Duck Crossing. I visited the inspiration […]
Meet Charlton Bivins, Chair of the Clayton County Cycling Club (C4)
photo courtesy of Charlton Bivins Like many days, Charlton Bivins rode his bike the short distance from his new dream home in the City of Jonesboro, Georgia to the five miles of paved multiuse trail […]
Will Sandy Springs, Georgia Take the Lead? (Or Will It Be Your City?) UPDATED
photo above not far from the ghost bike in Sandy Springs, Georgia, USA. That’s a grown man on the bike. I’m 5’1. Children are smaller. Tomorrow I am invited to join a group of people […]
Fall in Love with Bikeshare
Bikeshare has had a “moment” this past year during the pandemic. It has exploded in popularity in cities where people, including many healthcare workers, are using it in place of buses and trains; to support […]
The Next Three Weeks as Your Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor (UPDATED)
SO much is happening close to home and around the world relating to the extraordinary intersectionality of bikes with economic, environmental, and social resilience during the biggest bike boom in generations — and this unprecedented […]
Meet Shawn Deangelo Walton on the Corner
photo courtesy of EverybodyEatsATL You’ll find him on a corner most days from noon to 5 PM in Atlanta’s first-planned African American community, named Ashview Heights (which celebrated its 100-year anniversary last year), across the […]
