I write about joy a lot (including when I needed to work to reclaim it after surviving a hit-and-run while Traveling at the Speed of Bike last July). I try to keep my advocacy work, […]
“Blah Blah Blah; Stay Home Then.”
They say “don’t read the comments.” And I try not to, but sometimes I see them. They are mostly nice and supportive. But since I often tell a rubber-hits-the-road truth that some people don’t want […]
Meet Freedom
If you ask people what one word comes to mind when they think of bikes, the overwhelming majority of them say the same thing. Freedom. So as I’d been thinking of what to name the […]
Meet Kaysha
Meet Kaysha. She learned how to ride a bike today! Her goal is to be able to ride a bike with her friends on the Atlanta Beltline (shhhhh; they don’t know yet that she didn’t […]
DeKalb County
I’m almost six months in as Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor, by the way, and I’ve been tracking what I’m doing that has an impact and what doesn’t. (Short answer: a LOT is happening behind the […]
Frosty Reception (in this City, Not this Ice Cream Shop)
My next free, self-guided bike tour* as a PeopleForBikes Ambassador and Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor was going to take place in the cute and increasingly vibrant city of Chamblee, GA — but the rubber-hits-the-road reality […]
Meet Daisy
Ten years ago, Andrea Ward was a kitted-up cyclist zipping around a Metro Atlanta suburb named Peachtree Corners. Life dealt her some serious blows since then, but also blew a new life into hers when […]
Still Leaping! Stories Brewing
I’m still taking a leap of faith about my new book and working on final edits and the rest of the pitch package before submitting it. This is one of the locations that served as […]
