You can feed your kids up with good home cooking, and they’ll thrive, but what about when they get out on their own? Will they be able to feed themselves for life? Kim Painter wrote about this recently in USA Today. She points out that teens and young adults today often have no idea how [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Posted on January 19th, 2011 in Cycling, Sustainability
Just a couple of inspirational and informational bicycle commuting items today. First, in a guest post on Hobo Mama, Rachel Jonat tells about her experiences in going car-less with kids in Vancouver, B.C. And on YouTube, Stanford University’s graduate journalism program has posted a five-minute video featuring Dr. Maren Pedersen of Palo Alto, and her [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2011 in Life, Sustainability
Relief I don’t know about you, but every time the TV newscasts show the aftermath of the floods in Brazil, and the adults carrying tiny, tiny coffins…well, I just can’t stand it. It’s horrible. And this isn’t the only area in crisis; Sri Lanka and Australia have both had heavy flooding, too. Pakistan is still [...]
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We’ve had both sub-freezing weather and rainy weather in recent weeks, but I’m still biking along every day! Well, there was that one day that we had freezing rain, and I didn’t get out until about 10:00 a.m. when it thawed out, but that was OK. The only problem was that it was garbage day, [...]
Tags: bicycle, bike, children, Cycling, family biking, family cycling, HB-2228, kids, oregon, portland
Posted on January 07th, 2011 in Sustainability
You could call me a mommy blogger. After all, I did put Mama in the name of my blog. But I don’t do some of the things many mommy bloggers do. For instance, I generally don’t do product promotions and giveaways on this blog. I’ve considered it, but most of the time, the promotions offered [...]
