happy weekend {and some link love}

Life right now: busy, colorful, chaotic, exciting, eventful, rewarding. Our days are packed with activities, bike rides, friends, park outings, and all things wonderful about late summer.

In addition to playing mama and cyclist, I’ve also taken on new writing projects including a contributing writer role for Untapped Cities and an editor position with Flyover Feminism.

On the bike front, I’m happily planning our town’s first Kidical Mass ride with plenty of help from enthusiastic friends and fellow cycling parents. Our first ride is coming up in September and I can’t wait to see everyone come out with kids and bikes and picnic goodies galore. I will write more about planning and starting a Kidical Mass ride as well as a report on how our first one went.

There is so much to do and so little time in the day! But I wouldn’t want it any other way. This weekend: we’re cleaning our much neglected home, celebrating a wedding and a birthday, making our Kidical Mass flyers (with the help of talented little artists), and, as always, taking the dog swimming at the lake.

How about you? What’s in store for you this weekend?

Wherever this finds you, hope it’s a good one! xo S.

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Some fun reading for you this weekend:

• The Shoe Project via Flyover Feminism
• NYC Subway Art via Untapped Cities (I wish I had photographed and catalogued all the wonderfully diverse subway stops in Munich! Do you live in a city with great subway art?)
• A whole lot of great books on gardening and food making via longest acres (my favorite farm blog)
• And this is awful, I know, but just so funny.
• The Good, The Bad, and the Filtered on HuffPost, thanks to Bobbie for linking to this today. Raw, poignant, and undeniably true:  life as represented on Instagram versus the reality of new parenthood. Guilty as charged (just see this post as proof). But it’s exactly this ability to create a version of reality for others (and for ourselves!) that makes us feel in control of the narrative of our life even when control is elusive at best, no?
• And thanks to the above article, I’ve discovered author Claire Bidwell, whose book is now on my to-read list.