Author, Adventure Bicyclist, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter
BLADENSBURG, Md.—The stomach-turning stench of old trash pulled from the Anacostia River didn’t deter volunteers from digging in Saturday morning. Not with knives and forks, mind you, but gloved hands. Eleven hardy high-schoolers and adults had answered a June plea
Tintinabulation! I was reminded of the glory of words in early June while visiting the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Va., after covering a news assignment nearby. A museum sign noted that bugaboo, epilepsy and multicolor were
Greetings: Well, one activity we could still safely engage in during yet another odd-usual year of 2021 was bicycling. So, pedal we did. Don and I packed up our panniers in late August and departed for the exotic Midwest and
“What a journey—a transcontinental chronicle from a writer who is truly, fully alive!”
--environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is just one luminary with high praise for my new book Outpedaling ‘The Big C’ My Healing Cycle Across America. I know it will inspire you, too. As an award-winning reporter, I’m accustomed to interviewing sources from all walks of life. Being brave enough to write about the 4,250-mile solo cycle I embarked on to celebrate being five years cancer-free forced me to turn the spotlight on myself. My memoir not only delves into my own intensive, 11-year odyssey with melanoma, but reveals how I rediscovered my father—who died of the same type of cancer when he was 44 and I was 15. Don’t despair. This is not a boo-hoo story. It’s a frank, unsentimental and engaging tale about human connections and why I had to unearth my past to make sense of my present.
