The People You Meet

  • The People You Meet | Shane

    The People You Meet | Shane

    The People You Meet | Shane 5000 miles. – How the conversation ended.  How much I have left to eek out of my van tires before I have to toss them where, if in the 80% of tires recycled, they will go to be chemically melted down.  Hi there. – How the conversation started.  My van Read more

  • A Mingling of Minds, A Meeting in the Woods

    A Mingling of Minds, A Meeting in the Woods

    Round and round and round. The microwave plate was taking four various flavored Amy’s organic, vegan, and gluten-free burritos on a little carnival ride, heating them to the core, if I was patient enough. Burritos, burritoed, each into its own tinfoil sleeping bag, I grabbed the lot and headed from the office kitchen to the Read more

  • The People You Meet | Margarita

    Eyes that tell of a soul on fire eight decades in, sparkling enough to be the first thing you see and emit their own energy. Married at 18, by choice, to a man more than two decades her senior, she was happy. She lived life her own way, and after his passing met and remarried Read more

  • The People You Meet | Joanne

    It was subfreezing. Procrastination brought a midday start for an ambitious ride, 80 miles of gravel and hills. Middle Mountain – a spine that runs along, home to hundreds of acres of forest, just as many stories as trees, and people hwo have lived and died among its folds and peaks – runs to the Read more

  • DEAR CYCLING INDUSTRY

    A call to address and end racism in cycling. Amplify BIPOC voices. Thank you, Marzhel. .WATCH • LISTEN+HEAR • SHARE • ACT. Marzhel is a friend, former coworker, stellar mechanic, and SO MUCH MORE. Please listen to his message. ..I have felt uncomfortable in this space since the second I entered it, and my only Read more

  • Tell Me Something… Else

    Tell Me Something… Else

    I’m more into year-round resolutions than New Year’s resolutions, which is good since it’s already the end of February. Avoiding an over emphasis on a single day, but respecting your goals and aspirations with a 365-day commitment – a daily commitment –  is much more powerful and purposeful in the long term. I have perhaps Read more