Cycling in Interesting Media Places

How many instances in some fashion, in non-cycling specific media, are there, every month, of mentions of the Bike, bicycle, bicycles, bicycling, bicyclists, Bikes, cycling, and/or cyclists,  and in what context?

By this I mean that the stories are most likely NOT solely about Cycling events, issues, and law, if at all.

Why not report on any stories I find?

I've been doing it, off and on, for the mainstream Blogosphere, and am finding that similar mentions show up in mainstream media publications as well.

So here is the 1st such find:

Steve McKibben is an edumicator who returned to the classroom after vacation, and found emptiness, and silence.

When I walked back into school early Monday, it was dark and empty. Our staff had been hard at work stripping floors and shampooing rugs, and there were chairs stacked akimbo in the halls.

I poked my head into some classrooms, and teachers had been busy rearranging; their walls were barren of student art, and there were boxes of supplies piled mysteriously in the corners.

The photo lab was dismantled, the kiln had not yet been vented, and there were computers pyramided in the cafeteria.

But most disturbing of all was the pall of silence.

Perhaps it was the jet lag, but one of the first thoughts that popped into my head as I wandered through the deserted building was a paraphrase of the classic Gloria Steinem quote: a school without students is like a fish without a bicycle.

This is a wonderful little article by someone who can't wait to get back to the job of filling up the minds of Young Skulls. ;-D

Read the full piece:

North Lake Tahoe Bonanza ( 8/13 ): Creative Environment for Education.