When I am stuck on a story I go back to the beginning and rewrite the first sentence and try to make it the truest it can be.
Author: anne
I ride words and I write bikes. I mean...
I’m looking for a job
Ideal position: professional reader. But also good at: customer service, Spanish, bikes, people, writing, listening, being on time, teaching, caring for humans and animals.
Maine
Near Ogunquit Maine I saw a car with a bumper sticker that said: we don’t care how you do it in California. Well I don’t care that you don’t care I’m telling you anyway: when it comes to bike camping California does it better. In Maine, for the first time in all the years of […]
What I am learning on bike tour
What time the sun sets. How long it takes for it to get dark after the sun sets. What time it starts to get light in the morning. What time the sun rises. Squirrels are very busy collecting nuts. Squirrels are surprisingly noisy. What I am forgetting The day of the week. The day of […]
Things I bring
Tent. Sleeping pad. Sleeping bag. Tarp. Micro towel. Cup. Knife. Spork. (Sometimes I take more cooking supplies but I didn’t feel like it this time.) Keds. Tevas. Billed hat (actually ended up leaving that home). Beanie. Rain jacket. Zipper sweatshirt. Leggings. Two pairs of cycling shorts. One pair of non-cycling shorts. Three shirts. One tunic […]
Should I ride my bike to Maine?
There are obvious reasons to visit Maine by bike. They say it is beautiful. They say the water is cold. But there are reasons not to go to Maine: It is frivolous to ride around on my bike all day. I’m getting too old for this. It used to be cool that I rode my […]
Contradictions
I’ve been writing some articles and blogs recently that are a bit, idk, more professional than my usual style. And I realized, to my own disappointment, that I was tending to refer to men by their last names and women by their first names. Find all of your contradictions.
Racism, Instagram, and me
“White women are the people I’m most scared of.” -a black woman artist Well that was a hard one to swallow when I read it. And I think that the fact that it was hard to swallow is where it holds truth. I’ve spent a lot of my adulthood supporting (white) feminist causes. But instead […]
On balance
These are how my summer days are going: in a nearby park in partial shade I teach kids how to ride bikes. Two, maybe three groups per day. I put sunscreen on everywhere but especially in the folds of my ears, the inside elbows, the backs of my hands. The kids on bikes: they’re pushing […]
Anne Foster 