Author profile: Marion Rice

Marion Rice has been producing educational media since 1993. She has been the Executive Producer of a number of web sites for PBS.org including The PBS Parents Guide To Talking With Kids About War and Violence, History Detectives and The New Heroes. Most recently she was the Co-Executive Producer of a web site for parents to help them support their children’s emergent literacy from birth to age 5. Marion Rice started writing the Family Biking column for BikePortland in 2008. She is interested in developing stories that are relevant to families on all parts of the car free/ car light continuum.

In addition to writing, Marion helps the BikePortland team with her experience in fund-raising and corporate development.

If you have a story idea or would just like to get in touch, you can reach her at (503) 708-0707 or at marion[at]bikeportland.org.

Here are the other 16 articles by Marion Rice:

• Need a transportation bike for your kid? Good options are out there (December 8, 2009)
  

  Most kids' bikes available in the US, like these spotted at Tour de Ladd this fall, aren't fitted out for city riding. (Photo © J. Maus)

  After an exhaustive search for a good city bike for my son, I have concluded that kids bikes in general are in a sorry state. Either they are poorly constructed [...]

• Work pants made for women work great on the bike (October 14, 2009)
  

  Marion Rice and her new work pants in action. (Photo © Elly Blue)

  So, I just have to dish about my new pants. Red Ants Pants are work pants shaped for a woman. Designed by outdoorsy gal Sarah Calhoun, who lives in a ranching town of White Sulphur Springs, Montana, these pants are made for women [...]

• Review: Bridging the independence gap with the FollowMe (October 1, 2009)
  

  [Publisher's note: This review is by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice. Marion's last column explored safety and cultural issues around carrying infants by bike.]

  Griffin and dad test riding the FollowMe.(Photos © J. Maus)

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• Carrying your infant by bike: How young is too young? (August 24, 2009)
  

  A baby seat in a bakfiets is not a rare sight in Portland.(Photos © J. Maus)

  A reader contacted us with a dilemma -- she is about to have her first child, she doesn't own a car, and she travels primarily by bike. In preparing for her new life as a parent, she had some questions.
  Is [...]

• How to navigate through your child's first bike purchase (May 27, 2009)
  

  Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

  [Publisher's note: This article is by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice. Marion's last two columns have been about biking while pregnant. Today she talks about negotiating a first bike purchase with your child.]

  Starting at about 10 years old, I can remember going everywhere on my bike with my group of [...]

• Condo developer rolls out the green lane for bikes (April 30, 2009)
  

  [Welcome to the first article in our new Bike Home section. Marion Rice, our family biking columnist, will be sharing her finds and tips about all things related to bike-friendly living spaces. She'll be on the hunt for the best backyard bike sheds, bike-friendly homes for sale, bike yard art, and other fun stuff. [...]

• Biking with a bump (at 32 weeks) (April 27, 2009)
  

  [Editor's note: The story below, written our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice, is a follow-up to a story we published on February 2nd. That story introduced you to Portlander Angela Koch and posed the question: Should you ride while pregnant?]

  Angela Koch, 32 weeks pregnant, pedals happily along SE Ash Street.(Photos © Dan Liu)

  Angela [...]

• Biking with a bump: Should you ride while pregnant? (February 3, 2009)
  

  Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

  [Publisher's note: This article is by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice (bio). Marion previously wrote about how to deal with kids who don't want to go by bike. Today, she delves into the topic of biking while pregnant.]

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• What to do when kids don't want to go by bike (December 5, 2008)
  

  Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

  [Editor's note: This article is by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice. Marion previously wrote about how to keep kids warm and dry on the bike. Today, she offers up her tips and thoughts about what to do when your little ones don't feel like hopping on the bike [...]

• Keeping kids warm and dry on the bike (October 30, 2008)
  

  Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

  This article was written by our Family Biking columnist Marion Rice. For previous articles in this series, and for links to other articles and photos on family biking, check out the Family Biking Page.

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• Biking with kids? Tether that sippy cup, and bring some snacks (July 3, 2008)
  

  Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

  [This article was written by our Carfree Families columnist Marion Rice. For previous articles in this series, and for links to other articles and photos on family biking, check out the Carfree Families Page.]

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• Biking with the flow: The challenges for women during that time of the month (June 5, 2008)
  

  Marion Rice and daughter Gleneden

  [This article was written by our Carfree Families columnist Marion Rice. For previous articles in this series, and for links to other articles and photos on family biking, check out the Carfree Families Page.]

  Some of you may wonder what this post has to do with family cycling, but I assure [...]

• Family biking: Moving towards bike independence (May 21, 2008)
  

  [Note: This article was written by Marion Rice. See the other articles in her Carfree Families column.]

  When are kids ready to go it alone?(All photos © J. Maus)

  My son is five (turning six in August) and has had his own "big boy bike" for about a year now. It mostly sits in [...]

• Top tips for biking with babies (and toddlers too!) (April 24, 2008)
  

  [Please note that we've changed the name of our family biking column from "Carfree Families" to "Car-Less Families". This is the third article in the ongoing series written by Marion Rice. Read the others here.]

  (Photos © J. Maus)

  From my perspective, there is nothing better than tooling around town with my toddler on the [...]

• Riding with kids: Which bike set-ups work best? [Updated] (April 15, 2008)
  

  [Note: This article was written by BikePortland.org's Carfree Families columnist Marion Rice.]

  The Folz family (Allan, Carie and Cody) used their tandem/child-seat/trailer combo to participate in a bike move last summer. (All photos © J. Maus)

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• Car-Less Families -- a new column on BikePortland.org (April 3, 2008)
  

  Editor's note: I am excited to introduce Marion Rice (you might remember her from this story back in November). Marion is a mother of two (ages 5 and 2), is married to "the coolest guy ever who bikes as much as he can and is into Xtracycle dating". She's full of [...]