Happy Father’s Day to my dad, whom I saw last week for the first time since before COVID. He always gets “the bike in the basement” ready for me (meet Schwinneola here). He even came […]
Roots
I passed this mural in Atlanta this week and paused to really think about roots. My social studies class did a big unit on the miniseries Roots when it first aired in the 1970s. The […]
Meet Shelley Carr, Bicycle Mayor of London, Canada
photo courtesy of Shelley Carr Meet Shelley Carr, who doesn’t drive a car. She drove thousands of kilometers a year as part of her work at a Chrysler minivan factory in Canada. But then the […]
Let’s Get This Party Rolling!
If you live in one of the more-than-50 cities that already have these wave delineators or other pop-up bike lane barriers (or are in a city that is agile and able to act quickly to […]
Meet Arcy Canumay, Bicycle Mayor of Waterloo, Canada
photo courtesy of Arcy Canumay A boy who rode his bike around rice paddies in the southern Philippines so long each day that his mother would get mad at him now zips around on an […]
Brooklyn Bridge on Citibike
This scared me (note: I used to do this regularly when I was in my 20s). But a sign on a building visible from the Brooklyn Bridge said You Go, Girl. So I did. (See […]
Head in the Clouds
I’m back in Metro Atlanta now, in the still of morning — my crops freshly drenched from on overnight storm, birdsong punctuating the air — but my head is still in the clouds from my […]
World Bicycle Day Was An Olympic Event
World Bicycle Day this past Thursday turned into a global team sport as bicycle mayors around the world posted photos of themselves or others waving on bikes, tagged #RollingWave across social media (most abundantly on […]
