Following up on the East Coast Greenway Mid-Atlantic Summit last week, here are some notes. Community engagement To help someone, listen, understand their needs, and don’t push your agenda. A city might have funds to install a bike share location at a community center. People who use the community center may only care about […]
I walked into the Jenkintown Library last month and saw a puzzle in progress in front of the fireplace. It got me thinking about problem solving. A puzzle. You sit down and work on it because it’s in front of you. You don’t blame the manufacturer for mixing up all of the pieces. You probably […]
Yesterday I went to the Bicycle Coalition’s Vision Zero Conference instead of going to a basketball game (Jenkintown girls are in the state tournament). After the conference, I talked with Veronica Davis, the keynote speaker. I remembered her talk at the League of American Bicyclists National Summit in 2013 about Black Women Bike DC. Denise […]
In February I met up with Andy Strauss and we biked over to the NJ Bike Walk Summit. Cyndi Steiner and her team who put on the Bike/Walk NJ Summit had a good collection of speakers. I had wanted to write much more about this, but that opportunity has passed. Supporting efforts of Adventure Cycling […]
I first listened to the book “Rework” years ago, and recently I listened to “It Doesn’t have to be Crazy at Work.” These books are by Basecamp‘s founders. I like the books, and I bought hardcover versions. Tomorrow I’m going to take them to my meeting. Today is March 13, 2019, and we are in the […]
Sometimes I can learn so much just in our own kitchen at home. This morning, Rona was explaining this watering hole map on a new plate from the Warlukurlangu cooperative. The cooperative is in Alice Springs. The area is vast expanses of red earth, with little green scrubby shrubs. On the plate, red swirls are […]
Paul Bunting came by on Friday. He showed me book two of a five book series on Washington and the Revolution, written by John Marshall. And Paul left me with some photocopied pages about Lexington, Concord and Breed’s Hill. There was no Paul Revere mentioned. While we were talking, I also learned about the Scheide […]
I’m reading a book by Dianne Mize, Finding Freedom to Create – A Painter’s Road Map. And yesterday on my walk back from White Horse Coffee Shoppe, I was looking at everything with the possibility of drawing it. Kind of drawing with my hand in the air. Mize presents drawing as a response. It’s just […]
Kate is learning AutoDesk Inventor in an online class at school. The other day, she had to stay late because there’s only one computer at school that can run AutoDesk. Earlier in the month, I had installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro using Virtualbox. Given that AutoDesk is a processor intensive program, I didn’t […]