What’s the Mission?
In my last post, I wrote about different kinds of cyclists I see in my neighborhood, lamenting that there’s no one quite like me. That same day, Honking in Traffic posted Who’s biking? Choice or necessity, which tells about the writer’s encounter with a Latino cyclist who is bicycle commuting out of necessity. The writer [...]
Portland may be a bicycling mecca, but out where I live? Not so much. I’m in East Portland, which used to be farmland and was later converted into suburbia. We have large residential-only districts, big-box shopping centers, and wide, busy arterial streets.
There are some streets with good bike lanes, and there are quiet residential streets [...]
It’s a cliche. January is a time for setting goals. Really, I set goals every month, or even every day. But it’s time for me to take a look at how I’m doing for January.
At the beginning of the month, I read @metroknow’s goal-setting post on Almost Fit, and decided to adopt his mini-goal of [...]
I think about food a lot; probably more than I should.
I think about it in terms of sustainability. Are we eating locally-grown and produced food? Where should we get it from? Can we and should we afford organics?
I also think about it in terms of health. I know that I need to eat at least [...]
I’m trying again. I failed at getting up at 5:00 a.m. last week, although I did manage 6:30. This week, I’m trying a new strategy. I’ve asked my husband, who does get up at 5:00, to wake me up and do an exercise routine with me. That’ll help with both the waking up and the [...]
I looked out the window after school today, and saw rain pouring down on students and teachers as they loaded the buses. It didn’t look good for me, and I’d parked my bike outside and left all of my rain gear (cheap poncho and plastic bags) in the Freeloader bags, where it was already getting [...]
At 5:00 this morning, the alarm clock came to life and blared out that there’d been another earthquake in Haiti, magnitude 6.1.
“Oh, no”
“What?!”
My husband and I responded simultaneously. He turned the alarm off and went back to sleep, since he was going to work two hours late today. I rolled over and didn’t go back [...]
After the accident, I did get my bike into the shop for a tuneup. Yesterday, I got the call that it was ready. Yay! I walked down to the bike shop (bonus exercise!) to pick it up. The mechanic went through what he’d done; besides the usual adjusting and cleaning, he’d had to put the [...]
