Been scheming for next fall's 24 Hours From Home Challenge with my friend today. We had an entire public ferry all to ourselves! Does that make it a private ferry?

"The years go by/As quickly as a wink/Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself/It's later than you think" 🥺

"Now Christians don't walk out on me just yet/You know whose name I'm yelling as I'm clutching my chest/The one my dad told me to and his told him to/And I probably pray as much or more than you do/Believe? Shit, every word I sing/But believing and knowing, those are two different things" 💙

I made the mistake of trying to learn just a bit more about Charlie Kirk amid the frustrating hagiography so many weeks back, and despite the fact that I have not clicked on a single video since, the reel feeding continues. Dear Meta: Please stop

What a beautiful Saturday! It's meet-your-bike day at the International Institute for nine Earn-A-Bike students on week four of their BWorks class. Back at the shop, we convened week two of Learn-To-Ride for seven soon-to-be riders. We're so grateful to all the teachers, mechanics & other helpers! 🍁

Joe and I saw Todd Snider at the Sheldon in 2018. I am very sorry to hear of his passing.

Groceries and sunset

Almost time for a protest

New level of peaceful Artie/Hobo co-existence unlocked ... though Artie's expression suggests he is not totally at peace inside his soul about the situation:) Truly I don't think they've shared Joe's lap quite like this before.

On a more productive note, please help Azmira and her family if you feel so moved and are able. #STL #trafficviolence #driveraccountabilitynow

Well at least in this country where we allow rage-fueled criminals and abusers of women and girls to have increasingly more unchecked power and wealth we also subject everyone just trying to get to work and school to escalating traffic violence that is not addressed by even most of the "good" pols

Sometimes the truth escapes like a cat out a door you thought was closed.

No aurora here in Soulard - just bright lights, a few empty water bottles, big smiles, and kids learning to ride after dark! Every pedal forward is a little victory over fear and a big step toward freedom. Thanks to everyone who helps us keep the glow going!

Witnessed emergency road assistance personnel near Poplar Street Bridge this morning desperately waving at rushimg drivers to give them and those affected by a crash space. I know I am a broken record but the bad driving out there is shameful as is the lack of accountability.

I once failed to explicitly explain that STL central time is different than eastern time (as a radio producer for our live remote segment with her) and she sent me a devastating one-line email that left me feeling equally owned (but she still joined us live 💯)

And another! I am saddened and disgusted by the lack of local, regional and national political will to hold increasingly dangerous drivers accountable and provide actual victim resources. Do better, #STL. Please. Slow. DOWN!! 😡🚸💔 In the meantime, all we have is GoFundMe. gofund.me/1da542f65

The first listening of the season to Sufjan Stevens' Christmas album has been done. Don't come at me

Artie dog and Eeevah mug out for a morning walk

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

Can they at least release the Epstein files, as a treat

But also! He had multiple DUIs. She would be alive if we treated reckless and impaired driving as the violent crises they are. 😩

Good to see they got him.

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We finished out this mostly sunny and happily busy week with a bustling Saturday at the shop — big thanks to everyone who joined us and pitched in on a multitude of fronts! 3/3

Had a true rest day today full of an audiobook and cooking and naps 🙏

Is it possible to pull a muscle in your neck from coughing

What is a chore that you choose to find joy in? I've been trying to do that with grocery shopping. It really is a wonder that I can go to one colorful place and get everything from butternut squash and kale to chocolate to tea to pumpkin beer to cat food

Weekly recap: Nov. 2 to 8 Our teachers guided 11 groups of BWorks students in a variety of Earn-A-Bike, Earn-A-Computer and Learn-To-Ride lessons this week. Much of that learning and fun took place at local schools and at our headquarters, and still other sessions brought us to Vitendo4Africa 1/3

"If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live." Horrifying times as American Christians continue to fall for the idea that Trump loves Jesus (he doesn't) and them (he doesn't care about you).

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.

A most beautiful day!!

Pretty day!

Great suggestions. There are scores - if not hundreds - of apartment vacancies in residential projects that received tax abatement and TIF.

With freezing temps now upon us, can haz for emergency shelter?

Still having some gourd times amid the darkness

bike bus!! 🚲 🚌

An easy thing you can do to help bring more children joy and safety and outdoor activity is to directly share vids of bike buses, which are a global movement centering children's active transportation to and from school. Please help uplift youth bike education and bike buses as worthy of investment!

Did you get outside today?

Three elementary schools, one army of hard-working staff and volunteers, ome very happy kiddos at all three achools, and a tired evay and her jam-packed car at the end of the day

Text from a pre-K parent volunteer yesterday as we looked toward today's @stlbworks.bsky.social #bikebus to school 💙

Another beautiful #bikebus morning in #STL! My heart is full. #BWorks

Hobo and Artie watching the spooky show with me

Come join us tonight at 6pm and see how volunteering can also be your workout! New volunteer tour + Q+A from 6-7pm on the first Tuesday of each month.

Elementary kid waiting for the school bus with his laptop open as Artie 🐶 and I approach: I have a question. Can you spell "previously"? Me, cringe-level proud: Why yes! I was an English major so this is in my wheelhouse. P-r-e-v-i-o-u-s-l-y ... are you finishing a paper? Him: No, a PowerPoint 💙

“I loved going to Calico Jack’s and showing everyone [the tree]. Oh and thank you for teaching me how to shift gears.” Read more fourth-grade reflections on our blog! 3/3 www.bworks.org/blog/2025/10...

“Thank you so much for spending your time on us and teaching us new skills. … From the beginning to the end you guys always were by our side. You taught us hand signals, how to rebuild a bike and how to work a bike lock. I loved how you guys made it harder and harder every day. ..." 1/3

Another 🧵 from @stlbworks.bsky.social filled with big grins on kids and joy.

... Earn-A-Bike at Humboldt School. We rounded out the week today with a busy Saturday at the retail shop, some extra riding practice, a great Day 2 working with youth at the International Institute — and an alumni adventure along the Katy Trail and Busch Greenway! 3/3

... in Professor Lindsey Stouffer’s “UpCycles” class. The public exhibition is on display now through December 6 at the Wash U Sam Fox School Gallery at 6128 Delmar. Earlier in the week we celebrated two graduating bike classes, one a group of Learn-To-Ride grads on site and the other 2/3

Weekly recap: Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 🧵 A special highlight over the past seven days of BWorks activities was Thursday’s opening reception for the exhibition “Dream Machines,” highlighting last spring’s semester-long collaboration between nine BWorks youth and 10 Wash U students 1/3