How I Learned to Cycle With My Anxieties Through the Berkeley Hills

‘Something about symbiotic leg circles and forward momentum makes our truths spill out’

Amanda Spiller
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readDec 9, 2021

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Our lunch ride is a straight shot up the Berkeley Hills. I break an early sweat on the steep beginnings of Spruce to rise above the chaos of the city below, where thoughts are crisp as air. Elle and I sync…

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Grief and healing | Author of Laying Roots: Poems on Grief and Healing