My whole family enjoys word play and we love a seriously raucous, make-you-cry, pants-wetting belly laugh. The humor here is more on the chuckle side than the deep belly laugh. I do amuse myself. Some of the words are more serious literature, however. I began a morning habit of reading poetry that led to a number of collections on various themes, and at one point tracked what I read each month. My life is full of words.
- A Dusty Collection: Poems about Dust (Nov. 16, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: November (Nov. 1, 2024)
- Keep It Growing: Poems about Gardening (Oct. 5, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: October (Oct. 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: September (Sept. 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: August (Aug. 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: July (July 1, 2024)
- If Electric Hand Dryers Were Bicycles (Bike Style, June 24, 2024)
- Summer Solstice Readings (June 20, 2024)
- Still Walking, More Poetry (Bike Style, June 14, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: June (June 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: May (May 1, 2024)
- Earth Day Poems for Every Day (April 22, 2024)
- Celebrate National Poetry Month (April 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: April (April 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: March (March 1, 2024)
- Seeing and other Ways of Knowing (Feb. 24, 2024)
- How We Get Where We're Going: Transportation Poems (Bike Style, Feb. 17, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: February (Feb. 1, 2024)
- A Year of Poems: January (Jan. 1, 2024)
- Winter Solstice Readings and More (Dec. 21, 2023)
- Bike Books I Recommend: Art, Cartoons, Deep Thoughts, Miscellany (Bike Style, Dec. 11, 2023)
- The Quotidian: Poems Celebrating the Everyday, the Ordinary (Dec. 2, 2023)
- Bike Song Playlist: Tunes to Get You Rolling (Bike Style, Nov. 18, 2023)
- It Beats the Alternative: Poems on Growing Older (Oct. 28, 2023)
- Walking Poems (Bike Style, Oct. 26, 2023)
- We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: Poems for Activists and Advocates (Aug. 12, 2023)
- More Poems on the Bike Rack (Bike Style, July 27, 2023)
- Yes, Even More Transportation Poems (Bike Style, June 25, 2023)
- Making Soup: A Pot Full of Poems (June 10, 2023)
- “Do Not Drive Through, This Poem’s In The Way”: Transportation Poems Keep Rolling In (Bike Style, May 6, 2023)
- Hashtag Bikes (Bike Style, April 16, 2023)
- “Safe passage through countless intersections”: A Baker’s Dozen of Transportation Poems (Bike Style, March 18, 2023)
- Winter Solstice Readings (Dec. 21, 2022)
- An Alphabet of Things (Dec. 13, 2022)
- “I think/therefore/I ride.” A Bike Rack of Bicycle Poems (Bike Style, Dec. 10, 2022)
- What’s in a Name? Acoustic or Analog, Regular or Traditional Bicycle* (Bike Style, Nov. 20, 2022)
- 2019 Blogging in Review (Dec. 31, 2019)
- Books I'm Not Done Reading (Yet) (Dec. 29, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: September-October 2019 (Nov. 2, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: July-August 2019 (Sept. 1, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: June 2019 (July 4, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: May 2019 (June 9, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: April 2019 (May 12, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: March 2019 (March 31, 2019)
- What I'm Reading Eventually: My 2019 TBR (To Be Read) List (Mar. 9, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: February 2019 (Mar. 2, 2019)
- What I'm Reading: January 2019 (Feb. 2, 2019)
- 2018 Reading List. It's Long. I Read a Lot. As in, a LOT a lot. (Jan. 22, 2019)
- 2018 Blogging in Review (Dec. 31, 2018)
- Happy Holiday + Awesome Alliteration (Bike Style, Nov. 25, 2018)
- A Little Love Note to Twitter (Oct. 4, 2018)
- Hey (We’re Not All) Guys! Why I Don’t Use “You Guys” (Sept. 28, 2018)
- How I've Been Reading (Aug. 30, 2018)Hey (We’re Not All) Guys! Why I Don’t Use “You Guys” (Sept. 28, 2018)
- How I've Been Reading (Aug. 30, 2018)
- One Word for 2014: Purpose (Washington Bikes Jan. 1, 2014)
- One Word for 2014 Bicycling (Bike Style Jan. 1, 2014)
- One Word for 2014 (Jan. 1, 2014)
- The Words You Speak (Nov. 13, 2013)
- 'Twas Brillig, and the Slithy Toves (June 1, 2013)
- Is There Such a Thing as a Lowercase "nazi"? (June 24, 2012)
- Wednesday Words: Bicycle Quotations on Women, Fashion, and Emancipation (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 26, 2011)
- How Procrastination Is Related to Productivity (Jan. 10, 2011)
- How Bikes Can Save the World (Nov. 21, 2010)
- Signs I Would Post Somewhere (Nov. 14, 2010)
- How to Improve Family Communication: Fridge Talk (Oct. 2, 2010)
- Thanks for Asking: Unsolicited Advice on How to Live (Aug. 21, 2010)
- Real-time Reviews of Job Applicants, or, I Can Be Brutally Honest. Just Watch. (June 11, 2010)
- I'm Part Dutch, You Know: What Do YOU Wear to Bike? (May 24, 2010)
- Raised by Wolves, or Free Range Kids? Either Way, they Learn and Live. At Least so Far. (Jan. 6, 2010)
- Oh, Those Crazy Memories of Childhood: Throwing Up (Jan. 5, 2010)
- A Talent for Stating the Obvious (Dec. 14, 2009)
- What IS It with the Body Spray, Already? Smells Like a Lot More than Teen Spirit (March 28, 2009)
- Ways the World Wide Web Allows Me to Procrastinate. Food for Thought, but You Should Do Something Productive Instead of Reading This (March 17, 2009)
- Becoming a Woman, and Boys Boys Boys: More Time with Younger Daughter (March 6, 2009)
- Getting to Know My 14-year-old--or Trying. Very Trying. (Feb. 27, 2009)
- Fun with Numbers. No, Really, I Mean It. (Feb. 7, 2009)
- 25 Random Things About Me, in Random Order (Feb. 4, 2009)
- For Someone Who's Supposed to Be So Smart.... Ways in which I Am Stupid (Jan. 31, 2009)
- Random Games with Words: What Do You Expect from a Linguistics Major? (Jan. 25, 2009)
- Thank You for the Belly Laughs, Marie Osmond (Jan. 17, 2009)
- Useful Super Hero Traits: I Am Sleeper Girl (Jan. 9, 2009)
- Grown-ups Versus the Little Kids: A Great Day in the Snow (Jan. 4, 2009)
- Fun with Slogans: Deathless(?) Prose for Chests and Bumpers (Dec. 22, 2008)
- Snow Day (Dec. 18, 2008)
- Sweetie and the Poo Rock (Dec. 7, 2008)
- Kate-isms: Life with a Teenage Girl who Thinks Fast and Talks even Faster (Nov. 20, 2008)
- Getting Older, or, It's Not Fair but Nobody Said it Would Be (Nov. 7, 2008)
- Kate and the Tomato Soup Incident (Oct. 6, 2008)