It felt so nice to ride my bike-of-choice (my road bike) in my way-of-choice (on streets and in protected infrastructure) yesterday — past murals (including this peachy one), to a community garden, through a school […]
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). CDC Foundation Communications Specialist working with State of Alaska Dept. of Health on Healthy You in 2022 project. Mensa member. Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor. See books on Amazon in all global markets (USA link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattie-Baker/e/B005JBN7ZK).
Grape News!
Grape news! We’re recently done with figs*, and now muscadines are falling. Bike helmets come in extra handy at this time of year 🙂 There’s a chapter in my book, Food for My Daughters, titled […]
Radical Act (my year-2 exec summary as bicycle mayor)
My active time as the first Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor as part of a global consortium with the Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS is now over. My final two months in pro-bono service (my term ends […]
A Whole Lotta Pretty
There’s a whole lotta pretty out there.
My (Truly-Final) Email to My Local City Hall
Good morning, Mayor, City Council, and fellow Dunwoody citizens. I left this comment on Councilor Heneghan’s blog this morning and wanted to share it with everyone, with the small but persistent hope that something I […]
Atlanta Is Now Off the Global Map
I’m done. Metro Atlanta is now officially off the global map as having an active bicycle mayor (and rollerskater!) as part of the global consortium of more-than-130 bicycle mayors with the Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS. […]
3 Reasons Why If You Can Dream It, You Can Live it
I can’t get this fact, learned in a series of futures thinking courses I took recently, out of my mind: 1. On a medical scan called a Functional MRI (fMRI), the brain lights up in […]
Shake Your Tail Feathers, Mama! (UPDATED!)
Okay, so this is realistic, right? The United States of America consists of 3.8 million miles. The distance from Atlanta to New York for my dad’s 90th birthday next April would be 893 miles. From […]
Traveling at the Speed of Bike 