Three girls I didn’t know came by my house the other day on bikes to ask about my garden. Two already came back to paint. All three are coming back to paint again today. They […]
Tag: girls
Street Photography (and a Street Safety Update)
This was not my lawyer*. This was not my mode of transportation when I survived a hit-and-run earlier this year. But as I’m selecting the photos for my year-end street photography collage (as usual), this […]
Helmet Hair (and Why This Is Not a Vanity Issue)
As a League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor who specifically teaches women and girls, specifically in highly-diverse Metro Atlanta, I encounter a specific reality over and over again. And that’s this: Women and girls with […]
Painfully Cute!
I got this photo via text last night and I was like O.M.G! Painfully cute!!!! This is my friend’s grandbaby modeling the Artsy Bike baby bib! You know you want this for your baby, grandbaby, […]
Lessons
Here is what the two girls I’m teaching have learned over the past three Pedal Power with Pattie lessons and are practicing this week before our next lesson. FYI, we sing a little song I […]
“Flossing” (and Time Traveling)
I flip my bike over in the driveway where I’ve lived for 25 years here in Metro Atlanta, 900 miles away from where I grew up in Mineola on Long Island in New York, and […]
Meet Melissa Balmer
(photo credit: Allan Crawford) Meet Melissa Balmer. She pedals love. Seriously. Pedal Love, founded by Melissa and operated in collaboration with Jim Brown (the former Executive Director of the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates), provides storytelling and […]
“More young girls pregnant due to water shortage”
So I saw a headline on Twitter yesterday that went something like this: “More Young Girls Pregnant Due to Water Shortage.” Just let those incongruous words sink in a minute, and then read what I […]
Traveling at the Speed of Bike 