Hi, all. You may have seen me gathering buttercups. I use them as an accent on handcrafted plantable-paper packaging for my upcycled earrings made from old bike tubes from REI (and other bike waste). These […]
Meet Waverley
So I get an email from a woman named Waverley who asks about a bike class. Turns out she hadn’t ridden a bike in years but then went out on the flat Silver Comet trail […]
Slice of Life
I mostly go alone to Clarkston, Georgia each week. I often drive to Decatur and ride my bike from there (12-15 miles total, depending on how much I putz around — see virtual bike tours […]
Alaska
I joined the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee, on the health and well-being team. I’m there to listen and learn, for now. I’ve been learning a great deal in my new job the past few […]
Brace Yourself — This Is Gorgeous
So while zipping around under the moon and stars on my little ebike (yet again), I discovered something breathtaking. Look at what happens when a car goes by my under-the-power-lines buttercup patch at night! (Brace […]
The Person for Whom I’ve Been Preparing This Garden Has Appeared
The person for whom I’ve been preparing this garden the past eight months (unbeknownst to either of us) appeared yesterday. As usual when these things happen, he seemed to drop out of thin air. And […]
Build Me Up, Buttercup
UPDATE: You can get a pair of these upcycled bike tube earrings on plantable card stock (while supplies last) when you donate $125US to Global Spokes, which repairs bikes for refugees-of-war. See here. So I […]
Meet Ben on My Bike Earring Ride!
I make upcycled handcrafted vegan-leather earrings out of old bike tubes,* bike chains, and bike brake pad hardware (retail cost: $35 a pair/wholesale cost: $25 a pair in limited micro-batch orders of 10 pairs/every $150 […]
