I have found my Noodle tribe! A man named Doug on the Slow Bicycle Movement Facebook page tapped me into a group named the Illustrious Toronto Pool Noodle Parade. It has 159 members of BikeNoodle […]
Reflecting
As I’m reflecting on my recent bike rides around Santa Monica, California on both Breeze bikeshare and my older daughter’s bike, I feel pretty confident in saying that it is the most bike-friendly place I’ve […]
City of angels
I’m just back from visiting my older daughter in the City of Angels, and I have a lot to process internally before it comes out in words. In the meantime, here’s a view from my […]
Dear girl
This poem is one of six that are in my book, Traveling at the Speed of Bike. It was written about a particular girl (not this one in the photo). But it could be about […]
Newest cycle track in USA
The newest two-way protected bike lane (cycle track) in the USA looks like this (during its final stages of construction) while Traveling at the Speed of Bike. It is directly in front of the high […]
Pigeons
Pigeons! I love when this happens while Traveling at the Speed of Bike. It’s the little things, folks.
Checking public bathrooms
Just so you know, this is what many women do every time we use a public bathroom alone (for those who even choose to do that) so that we are not attacked, raped, robbed, or […]
Three funeral homes
When I was just a hair older than the kids in the latest school shooting, a train hit a van carrying ten teenagers where I grew up in Mineola, New York. Nine of them were […]
