A Fresh Start

Sometimes, life is about new beginnings. As the youngest child entered his senior year of high school, I entered a new chapter in my life. Again. I took up motorcycle riding.

A friend asked me to take the endorsement class with her.  And that was the beginning of a new passion. I'd always wanted to ride, I thought it would never happen for me. I watched as other women in my life, and on the edges of my life, went to the endorsement class and began their own adventures in riding.

From the first it thrilled me. After enduring an abusive marriage, divorce, the deaths of my closest sister-friend, my mother, and several other friends.  Riding a motorcycle helped me find my sense of self. It empowered me:  I felt strong and free behind those bars!

Riding is now a passion, alongside several others.  In the last five years I've learned a lot, about myself, about riding, about the biker world, about friendship and compassion, and about trust.