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oyce Weiss remembers the
smell of lily of the valley
on the bushes throughout
the neighborhood. And the
sound of friends calling back and
forth through open windows.
And big family gatherings
"because we all lived next door to
each other."
She remembers lemonade on
hot afternoons. Most of all,
though, Weiss recalls the many
hours her father spent teaching
her how to ride a bike.
It has served, she says, as a
guide for how she lives to this
day.
Weiss, of West Bloomfield, is a
national speaker and author. Her
Take the Ride of Your Life! Shift
Gears for More Balance, Growth
andJoy focuses on how learning
to ride a bike helps define how
you conduct your life as an adult.
She is also a facilitator who
oyce Weiss: Setting an example
directs leadership and life-balance
workshops throughout North
America.
tle girl on the neighborhood streets,
She grew up on Kentucky Street in
where everyone would be watching,
northwest Detroit in just the kind of
"just wouldn't work." Instead, he
family, in just the kind of neighborhood
brought Joyce and her bike to an empty
that seems to define sweet days gone by.
bank parking lot. There, day after day
Her father, Joseph Morris, was an
after day, he worked with her.
accountant who worked from his home.
"You can do it!" he would say. "It will
Her mother, Sara, was a homemaker
feel great once you've got it. Just keep
while her children were in school; later,
trying!"
she was a salesperson at the Horn of
And then came the day when Joyce
Plenty, a gift shop. The couple had two
really could ride.
children, Joyce and Marcia, and wanted
"Learning how to ride a bike taught
nothing more than to make their
me independence and fun and inner-
daughters happy.
strength and balance.
"My mother was my cheerleader,"
"My parents set the example," Weiss
Weiss says. "And my father worked very
says. "Now I'm very close to my chil-
hard to give us the best life we could
dren [Ron of West Bloomfield and
have because he had had such a hard
Wendy
of East Lansing] and I really love
),
one.
my son- and daughter-in-law [Brian and
Joseph Morris was "a quiet man,"
Jodi]. They still go on vacations with
Joyce says. "He had large brown eyes
us.
and was very gentle. Everyone fell in
Weiss has three grandchildren, Ron
love with him."
and Jodi's Jordyn, 7, and Justin, 5, and
When it came time for Joyce to learn
Wendy and Brian's Dylan.
how to ride a bike — what kid in the
Before you ask — yes, Weiss and her
neighborhood didn't ride a bike? — it
husband, Jerry, are actively involved
was Joseph who taught her.
helping her grandchildren learn to ride
He had quite a challenge.
bikes.
"I wasn't coordinated at all," Joyce
"Watching them is awesome," she
says. 'And I was absolutely petrified of
says. "They fall, then they get up and
the bike. I was not one of those, 'Hey,
try again. Even little Dylan, who is 4,
I'm just going to get out there and ride!'
just called us. He's riding on training
people."
wheels."
Joseph knew, then, that taking his lit-
Guess who got him the bike. I I

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