Category Archives: urban simplicity

Lobster Killer!

This post is part shameless self-promotion, but also self-interest. It’s self-promotion because it refers to–and is linked to–an article I recently wrote for Artvoice weekly paper. The article chronicles my chagrin at having to kill 120 lobsters (yes I had to do it if I wanted to keep my job). This may not bother someContinue reading “Lobster Killer!”

It’s the Little Things

I saw this sign after walking across the Golden Gate Bridge last week with my son. It’s at the entrance to a stairway leading under the bridge and to the other side (so you don’t have to cross the hellish traffic). The stairs are long and steep so there is a ramp provided for bicyclistsContinue reading “It’s the Little Things”

Really Good Food From A Really Small Garden

If you’ve been to this blog before then you know that it is mostly about using a bike as a regular form of transportation, but it’s also about food (that I grow and cook), and about living simply (which is the most difficult thing, I think). At-any-rate, I am a proponent of getting rid ofContinue reading “Really Good Food From A Really Small Garden”

>Really Good Food From A Really Small Garden

> If you’ve been to this blog before then you know that it is mostly about using a bike as a regular form of transportation, but it’s also about food (that I grow and cook), and about living simply (which is the most difficult thing, I think). At-any-rate, I am a proponent of getting ridContinue reading “>Really Good Food From A Really Small Garden”

Things That Can Be Carried On (or pulled by) a Bike (#187)

$58.61 in groceries. Yup, still have a flat on the Mundo so I took the Dahon out with it’s Bike Rev trailer…A completely different ride but still just as fun.

Flat Tires Suck

No way around it, they do: flat tires suck. They’re really disappointing. Came home from vacation yesterday looking forward to taking a spin on the Mundo only to discover it had a flat on the front tire…hadn’t been on a bike in a week and was really looking forward to it. Maybe it went flatContinue reading “Flat Tires Suck”

Je Suis Retourné

Bike on Sutton and Stockton I’m back. My apologies to regular readers, bloggers, bikers, and overall simplifiers out in there blogasphere. One week…the longest I’ve went without a post since I began this blog! I was on holiday with my son in the beautiful city of San Francisco…I’d been there a few other times butContinue reading “Je Suis Retourné”

Woody Guthrie (Quotes and a Song)

“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, thatContinue reading “Woody Guthrie (Quotes and a Song)”