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• Dear Diary 010: Floodgates

  You better believe that when I’m quiet for this long there’s bound to be a crack in the dam forming. Summer’s been like pow! Yellow rays and warm breeze and wrapped in sweat and light and heat and adventure. So the world lights up with... Posted Jul 16 2010, 10:40 PM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, Reflection, Featured, Dear Diary, diary, floodgates

• Don’t Look Away: Thoughts on an Imbalanced World

  Six years old. A commercial interrupts my television program. Bloated babies with flies in their eyes. A Christian man with a white beard. I get up from where I am sitting, cross-legged, on the living room carpet and move toward the television to push... Posted Jun 07 2010, 02:14 PM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, Featured, starvation, hope, oil, mother-teresa, motherteresa, famine, oil-spill, kolkata, empathy

• Everyday Elation in Action: Turn Hope into Cash with Plus 3 Network

  Here’s what happens when I run. One foot in front of the other. Heartrate rising. Rampant release of Capital G Goodness into the bloodstream. Floodgates open. Muted elation. Everyday elation. Can we have that? Everyday elation? Do we deserve that... Posted May 21 2010, 09:16 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, fitness, running, life, Featured, charity, tracking, elation, runners-high, endorphins, giving, plus3network

• Photos: Mary Smith Campground

  * Share/Bookmark Related posts:Happy Mother’s Day: Glimmers for Mary Related posts: Happy Mother’s Day: Glimmers for Mary Posted May 21 2010, 09:05 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, photos, Featured, travel, shasta, redding, california, marysmith, trinity, lewiston, camping

• Dear Diary 008: Blood on the Sidewalk

  Yesterday Uganda’s highest ice caps split in half. Or at least that’s when it was discovered and reported. Yesterday I also had my chi rearranged by a very capable Amma practitioner. I entered and then fled Powell’s Book Store (disoriented... Posted May 04 2010, 10:08 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, Reflection, Dear Diary, glimmer, moments

• Cancer: Beware Fast Cyclists Who Sew!

  As I mentioned a few weeks ago, my home-girl Lindsay was diagnosed with *** cancer recently. Her initial diagnosis was great (as great as a cancer diagnosis can be, perhaps) and we didn’t think she was even going to have to deal with chemo. But... Posted Apr 18 2010, 09:17 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, Featured, cancer, sewing, lindsaykandra, craft, quilt

• How Much Is it “Worth”? (Justifying those new Sidis)

  Worth. What the hell is it? Value. We throw these words around all the time. “It’s not worth it to me.” or “It’s a great value.” But what does it mean? How do we quantify it? As a person who loves good design and well... Posted Apr 15 2010, 11:53 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, life, Featured, rapha, budget, saving, worth, sidi, money, spending, value, ibex, consumer, nau, showerspass

• I dare you not to cry: Volunteer for Bike First

  Last year I had the pleasure of covering a Bike First camp for my column in the Oregonian. In the piece, I describe involuntarily bursting into tears after watching a young girl with austism take her first unassisted pedalstrokes. If you missed, you can... Posted Mar 30 2010, 03:00 PM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, life, portland, bicycles, youth, ann-danica-sullivan, disability, children, learning-to-ride, autism, volunteer, bike-first, lose-the-training-wheels

• In the O: The Meaning of Sport

  Today’s column in the Oregonian is the last piece to reference my recent time in Tucson. It details an interaction I had with two women during one of our final rides – a poignant yet ordinary moment that stuck with me. In Tucson, I got home... Posted Mar 28 2010, 10:57 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, motivation, bikes, life, oregonian, arizona, tucson, Sport, compassion, inpsiration, spanish-trail

• Dear Diary 005: Bicycle Grocery Avenger and Coming Home

  Bicycle Grocery Avenger I hate grocery shopping. Which is weird, because I love cooking. But it’s not the food I mind, it’s the humanity. All variety of everyone bumping into each other, reaching for the same cheese, making desperate eyes... Posted Mar 17 2010, 10:41 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, life, Reflection, writing, Dear Diary, diary, little-pleasures, grocery-shopping

• Thursday Night: Me, You, Rex Burkholder and Awesome Wine

  More than just a rad name: Rex For Metro President There’s an important election happening here in Portland in May and I want you to know about it. Why? Because it’s going to have a very large effect on the state of transportation (cycling... Posted Mar 16 2010, 06:06 PM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, life, portland, Featured, politics, metro, transporation, rex-burkholder, rexburkholder, planning, campaign, election

• The High Five Project (Hit ‘em high, hit ‘em low)

  There were a lot of great cycling moments in Tucson. Meeting El Grupo, riding road bikes through foot deep washes (maybe we won’t try that one again), racing like matchbox cars along the swooping, smooth road of Saguaro East, ripping into our stash... Posted Mar 10 2010, 09:00 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, high-five, spontaneous, kindness, nice, colleen-smith

• Let’s Go to New Zealand for MTB SSWC

  Let’s wander together. I’m going to New Zealand in October. Come hell or high water. Really. After “racing” in the Cyclocross Single Speed World Champsionships last year and then reading about the madcap shenanigans at the 2010... Posted Mar 09 2010, 05:59 PM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, life, Mountain Biking, MTBSSWC, MTB, touring, Rotura, fun, travel, SSWC, newzealand, trip

• Q&A: Cyclocross Cliques, XTerra Dares, Favorite Bikes

  John says: What’s your favorite bike and favorite type of riding? Ouch! Favorite bike! That’s a tough one. To be honest, my favorite bike is a figment of my memory. It was a vintage Pogliaghi that Sal gave to me to use when I met him. A “friend”... Posted Mar 04 2010, 11:07 AM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: cycling, life, photos, Q&A, questions, answers

• Ask Me Anything

  Ouch. My little writing mind is fo-frazzleed from too much jobby-job word making. I need a distraction. Let’s chat. Ask me anything. No, really. Anything. I’ll answer whatever I can and whatever won’t get me arrested. In the meantime... Posted Mar 03 2010, 04:54 PM by Grit & Glimmer Filed under: life, askme