Mindful Walker is a blog dedicated to one woman's experience of architecture, street life, history,
and nature while walking or riding. In it, she intelligently examinies the changes in our cities,
towns, and the environment. Historic
preservation, smart growth, and the life of communities are of special interest to this blogger. She wrote to me last week and I'm so glad she did. Yesterday I ran one of her posts about Coney Island. There's lost more to read over there. Here is an excerpt from her bio.

I’ve been an explorer since my childhood in Wampum, a small town in
Western Pennsylvania, where I was blessed to grow up in a large
Italian-American family of DeMarks and Cinis (my mother’s side). My mom
encouraged my love of history. I grew up as a member of what my cousin
Phyllis calls the rare and endangered species Wampum stoop dweller (known
for spending hours sitting on the stoop of the town bank on Main Street
and observing the street life). I graduated to street crawling and
back-road exploring, after moving to New Jersey and the East Coast 30
years ago.

I’m a long-time journalist who has created MindfulWalker.com
to marry the best of reporting and feature writing with the life,
community, and immediacy of the Internet. A love of history,
architecture, people, and different places has been the connecting
thread of my career, which began in newspapers and moved on to magazine
writing, varied publishing and media projects, and ultimately online.