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On Saturday, December 17th, I chatted about buses and community with Diane Horn on KEXP's Mind over Matter.A book about belief
My This I Believe essay is included in the book, This I Believe: Life Lessons, which was released on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011.-
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- Score one for MLKC Metro
- Sightline on strollers (or, “What she said”)
- 2011: The bus year in review
- Why we walk
- Christmas Eve, Bus Fam style
- On traveling and time, part II
- Eastbound 3, 2:30 PM
- Thank you (again), Sister Rosa
- Children’s Museum play bus, 12:15 PM (or, What happens when you read The Wizard of Oz to a BCiT from the CD)
- Busling’s future (fingers crossed)
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The Wheels of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, by Donald M. Crawford
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Score one for MLKC Metro
No amount of challenging, child-related policies; stop closures; or route restructures can take away the joy of seeing Dr. King’s face every single time I board a bus.
Happy holiday, everyone.
Sightline on strollers (or, “What she said”)
Sightline writing fellow Alyse Nelson recently blogged about the hassles associated with taking strollers on KC Metro buses. A taste:
But King County Metro was the sore spot of my car-free life. Agency rules required me to fold Orion’s stroller. Holding all of the stroller’s contents and Orion, I then had to find a seat before the bus lurched forward. The challenge didn’t end once on board. I had to squish into a seat with all of our stuff and attempt to keep Orion from grabbing the stroller’s dirty wheels for the duration of the ride. …
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Category: busing with babies Tagged hated it!, KC Metro, Sightline, strollers
Category: busing with babies Tagged hated it!, KC Metro, Sightline, strollers
2011: The bus year in review
The bus theme for 2011 was “adjustment.” It was a tough year on several fronts.
1) Busing with babies
I started the year grappling with the awkwardness of traveling with a toddler and a preschooler. The challenges increased as the year progressed (and baby #2 grew heavier, squirmier, and more opinionated). We still got around, of course, but I always felt like I had to choose something to sacrifice: convenience, physical comfort, carrying capacity, or sanity. Usually, it was two of the four.
I’ll admit that problem-solving isn’t my strong suit*, but I’m still convinced …
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Category: living the life Tagged 27, 4, congestion reduction charge, hated it!, KC Metro cuts, stops
Category: living the life Tagged 27, 4, congestion reduction charge, hated it!, KC Metro cuts, stops
Why we walk
Fun figurines at small people’s eye level:
My small people have been enjoying these dolls, displayed in a ground-level apartment window on one of our well-beaten walking paths, as long as they’ve been aware enough to look around. Chicklet’s favorite is the dancing couple in the back. Busling likes the guy with the “insrament.”
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Category: multi-modal, spotted! Tagged Central District, chicklet, walking
Category: multi-modal, spotted! Tagged Central District, chicklet, walking
Christmas Eve, Bus Fam style
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Category: busing with babies, living the life Tagged 8, baby busling, chicklet, Nutcracker
Category: busing with babies, living the life Tagged 8, baby busling, chicklet, Nutcracker
On traveling and time, part II
For going on four years now, Chicklet and I have had a standing Friday date with my friend Kelley and her daughter, Evan. (For almost two of those years, sweet Busling has tagged along, too.) When the girls were infants, we met at Green Lake for grown-up walking and talking, but as they grew older and our get-togethers became more about them, we started to branch out. Common meeting places these days: parks (Green Lake included), the Children’s Museum, Central Library, Aquarium, Zoo, and et cetera.
Most of the time, it takes my crew longer to travel to …
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Category: busing with babies, living the life Tagged Friday dates, Green Lake, Kelley
Category: busing with babies, living the life Tagged Friday dates, Green Lake, Kelley
Eastbound 3, 2:30 PM
At the stop near 8th, the driver gets on the mic and says, “Oops. You went too far.” When no one responds, he looks in his rearview mirror and tries again. “Wasn’t one of you looking for Union Gospel Mission?”
After another silence, several of us begin turning in our seats to see who he is talking to. In the process, our eyes scan the man sitting to my right, who has spent most of the short ride talking loudly on his cell about all the money he’s earned this year, and, in particular, this week.
“Don’t look at me,” …
Thank you (again), Sister Rosa
The current temperature in Montgomery, AL: 39 degrees. (To Bus Nerd’s down-south fam: My condolences.)
It is just now occurring to me how ridiculously courageous it is to start a bus boycott in December.* Shoot, just getting to church (which is only a mile north of us) on foot last Sunday in the pouring, freezing rain was an adventure. Our boycott was accidental (we missed the bus), but, now that our stop has been removed, we have to walk almost a half a mile just to get to a 48. So, bus or no, we’re …
Children’s Museum play bus, 12:15 PM (or, What happens when you read The Wizard of Oz to a BCiT from the CD)
Chicklet, pretending to drive: “Next stop, 23rd & Oz! Yellow Brick Road.”
