SASA on the move

People like me – brown, single mothers in their mid-30s – don’t do this kind of thing. Neither did I: until I did.  On a cold and wet morning this spring, I left home in Glasgow on my old touring bike and pedalled nearly 3000 miles until, exactly two months later, I reached Asia.  I…

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” So declares Juliet as she laments the name of her beloved Romeo. Shakespeare is right that names are only one part of the tapestry that makes us who we are – but they do matter. With less…

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” Anon With my physical preparation so far restricted to carb-loading, I won’t be going anywhere fast. But I do want to go far – nearly 3000 miles to the eastern edge of Europe. So, I have been training by…

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”  George Bernard Shaw, 1903  I can’t imagine a more unreasonable thing for someone like me – an unemployed, recently divorced, third-generation immigrant, mother-of-two in my mid-30s –…