Lifestyle column: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
I was a remarkably healthy cancer patient. Until I stopped bike commuting.
Cathy Hastie (Lifestyle Columnist)
BikePortland Articles by Cathy Hastie (Lifestyle Columnist)
Lifestyle column: Observing, analyzing Portland’s stop sign culture
Columnist Cathy Hastie observed thousands of people’s behavior at a few stop signs in southeast Portland. Her analysis and observations might surprise you.
Lifestyle column: A strange but satisfying Mother’s Day victory
I have never met anyone as dedicated to her bicycle-fueled independence as my 15-year old daughter.
Lifestyle column: What a car is good for
I have recently rediscovered that the typical car is much more than what I remembered it to be.
Lifestyle column: How I went over to the dark side
The question: would I give up a major component of my lifestyle in order to advance my career? My employer was asking me to take a long-term assignment 13 miles away, in Vancouver, Wash.
Lifestyle column: After commuting changed my life, life changed my commute
I was dedicated to my lifestyle and proud of it. Maybe a little conceited. Then, in 2010, I suddenly and painfully fell ill.
From mortality to mortification, 25 years of bruises on PDX streets
With 42,000 miles on Portland’s city streets, you’d think I would have been injured by now. But I remain unscathed. Well, almost.
Lifestyle column: ‘Those arrogant bikers,’ and why I’m one too
Portland has its coffee snobs and its beer snobs, and me – I’m a transportation snob.
Lifestyle column: A biker’s ode to the butt
What is perfectly aligned in my sights as the crowd of bikers swarms ahead of me, heading west up the Hawthorne bridge? I’ll give you a hint – it ain’t the sunrise.
Crunching the numbers on Portland bike fashion
One crisp, sunny September afternoon, I left work early and biked to the east side of the Hawthorne Bridge to conduct a fashion study of Portland cycling.
Portland’s $134 million monument to me
Join us in welcoming lifestyle columnist Cathy Hastie to BikePortland. Cathy is a former contributor to Portland Afoot and we’re excited to bring her perspective to our pages. Her first article is about a certain local civic engineering project that still needs a name. And it turns out, Cathy has an idea… Lifestyle columnist Cathy … Read more