Seven years ago my mom was diagnosed with cancer. It was detected late. So late in fact, the tumor was wrapped around one of her kidneys and killing it. Doctors surgically removed the tumor and her kidney. Over the next year or so she underwent some painful and sickening therapy that took its physical and [...]
Posts under ‘Bikes’
Tuesday Pic of the Day
Last summer, Laura was in an accident. She was riding her old 10-speed bike, and didn’t see the car until it was too late. She got banged up, but is doing better. Afterward, she only had her single speed bike. It’s a great bike, but it’s hard for her carrying Amelia up and down the [...]
Seven Corners
Last month I had this great plan of setting my fixed gear bike up with a basket and upright bars and I was gonna cruise around town and it was gonna be great. But just like that spontaneous road trip at 11pm, the idea was way better than the execution. Three weeks later I couldn’t [...]
TeamBreakaway
TeamBreakaway is the sort-of-top-secret project I’ve started in the past few weeks. I watched a video of a professional cyclist who started a foundation to get kids into competitive cycling, specifically professional cycling. I thought it was great and wanted to do something similar. In Portland, one of the bikiest towns ever, we have cycling [...]
Learning
This is one of my favorite pictures of us together. Not just because she’s being funny, or because we’re doing the same thing, but because that green bike is Laura’s bike, and the black one is Kathryn’s, and this was just another day when we all rode around town together. I love working on bikes. [...]
