I #LoveMnWinter. Today, I love popcorn. By Patrick Weber The past few weeks I have been trying to figure out how to sum up my first winter bike season. Popcorn. The smell of it as I heat up my hand warmers in the morning, and get ready to ride out Continue Reading →
I #lovemnwinter! Today, I shamelessly love winter! My past #ilovemnwinter top ten lists highlighted the noblest of ideas (starting a book club, knitting, meditating) while leaving some of the most honest reasons behind. This year, I’m sharing the dregs of those lists, the “not ready for publishing” reasons, the bottom Continue Reading →
I #LoveMnWinter! Today, I love the dark. By Carolyn Szczepanski I’ve always been an early riser. I love the way the world feels at 5 a.m., still slumbering but with the undercurrent of dreams conjuring the hopeful trajectory of what the day will bring. In winter, those pre-dawn hours feel Continue Reading →
I #lovemnwinter! Today, I love difficulty. By Hilary Lovelace Last night, my partner and I got two rather ominous fortune cookies: A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. All things are difficult before they are easy. Biking in winter is a challenge, it takes Continue Reading →
I #lovemnwinter! Today, I love collected winter memories. By Anneka
I LoveMnWinter! Today I love winter glitter, fat bikes & self care By Casey Wollschlaeger I love MN winter even when it doesn’t love me back. I love the slowly lengthening days of February even though my Vitamin D and mood levels have been sapped (Vitamin D enriched chocolate seems like Continue Reading →
I #LoveMNWinter By BrieAnna Lindquist Goofing in the winter brings me joy. Hopping in snow piles and throwing snow in the air keeps winter refreshing. See more of BrieAnna’s work at http://www.bringodesign.com/ Tweet your own loves: #lovemnwinter @greaseragmpls.
Camp Grease Rag was a blast! We had a fun and successful FTW-Only Camp Grease Rag! Your positive attitudes, willingness to help out, patience, respect, and FRIENDSHIP made this trip above and beyond. We worked hard to stick to these principles: Low barriers! A vehicle to get you and your Continue Reading →
Grease Rag is a collective group of FTWs, and we organize and make decisions in our Google Group. Any FTW with some connection to Grease Rag is able to join, but we got feedback that it can be intimidating to “step up” if you’re new. In response to that, Open Continue Reading →
Nothing is more fun than heart like taking a casual roll out of the city together with some of my most favorite people. This trip was for BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People of Color and people with an “it’s complicated relationship to their race”) FTW (femme/trans/women) only. Two people were bike camping for Continue Reading →
