Plant seeds. Ride a bike. Center joy (in all its conundrum). Trust the journey. I just keep coming back to that, and frankly, it’s all I have to offer. I hope it’s helpful. Food for […]
Tag: Traveling at the Speed of Bike
Lemonade Days!
Twenty-three years ago, a tornado ripped through where I live and destroyed a bunch of homes and trees. Local folks started a festival to turn “lemons into lemonade” and raise money to replant the forest. […]
IPCC report
A scathing scientific report (#IPCC) about our climate crisis was released today. Many of the issues we are facing are in my books (links below), with actionable steps and positive inspiration. 100% of proceeds are […]
Thanks, Ron from Chicago!
I was on my way home yesterday from a waterfall that served as the location for a pivotal scene in my latest book-in-progress, Slow Duck Crossing (a middle grade novel), when I discovered that Ron […]
Meet Richard
Meet Richard. He’s not Today’s Nice Stranger. He’s a very dear friend of mine since when my younger daughter (now 21) was in elementary school and he used to pick up his granddaughter. We had […]
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 […]
You Deserve Joy
So my younger daughter tells me TikTok is fun and I check it out and I see that, yes, in fact, it is! And then I say to myself: You know what else is fun? […]
Carpe Diem
My recent bike students were from Venezuela; the Democratic Republic of Congo (via a refugee camp in Uganda, where I was supposed to be right now); and Liberia (via a refugee camp in Guinea). See […]
