Meet Thelma. She is Today’s Nice Stranger. I met her while Traveling at the Speed of Bike. She was trimming bushes near the brick house her daddy built that is soon to be demolished so […]
Be the light
On this July 4th holiday and all days, be the light. The way forward depends on all of us.
Last bike class until September
I’m offering my last bike class until September. Registration required. Maximum 6 students. See details and register here.
It takes a village
The Coca Cola tractor trailer driver and I made eye contact. I nonverbally communicated that I and the woman with whom I was riding legally and necessarily two abreast would be turning left shortly, and […]
Open gates
The gate is open and I wander in, in a way I no longer can at a garden elsewhere that used to be close to my heart that is now closed to those who don’t […]
“What was she doing there?”
The dirt path calls and I follow it, knowing of the other-worldly ruins and the colorful graffiti that abounds in phantasmagorical splendor just beyond. But the overgrowth is too much to bear, making me too […]
Bamboo (and hemp) sharable scooters?
So I’m drilling holes into a piece of bamboo to make a fife, after building this year’s bamboo Rube Goldberg Machine for my summer crops to grow up and tumble down (after finding a fresh-cut […]
Everything will be ok?
I texted my friend Caryn and asked if she wanted to ride, yet again. Yes, she said. 7:15 am? I asked. You know, before those in cars are up and out. Yes, she said. And […]
