Cycletherapy ─ Grief and Healing on Two Wheels

Can you pedal your way through everything life throws at you?

Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bicycle, enjoying the little things about everyday life, dealing with the most difficult, and overcoming loss, trauma, and fear. Contributions range from the lyrical to the profane, the deeply personal to the keenly analytical. Includes essays, art, and a short story.

Elly Blue is an author and activist who lives in Portland, OR and writes about bicycle transportation. She is the author ofEveryday Bicycling: Ride a Bike for Transportation (Whatever Your Lifestyle) andBikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy.

Anika Ledlow studied sociology at Reed College.

Contributors to this volume include Anna Brones, Joe Biel, Gretchin Lair, Karen Canady, Connie Oehring, Julie Brooks, Lauren Hage, Sara Tretter, Lindsay Kandra, Jamie Passaro, Erin Fox, Amy Subach, Katherine Hodges, and Barb Grover. Cover art is by Kenton Hoppas.