the good days have been hard to come by lately. the heat wave rocked our family out of routine, the record-breaking air quality crisis trashed my health and led to a hospital day, money is tight enough that it is changing my plans, and i have no idea what i'm going to do for work from september onward. but today has been a good day.

rode bikes with my daughter, who is so in love with biking. it's crazy, because biking is like. my favorite thing. a lot of people know me as "the bike person" in their lives,...