Don't Let Go

Here's Kruse in a parking lot on a Saturday morning: Eight-year-old Skylar Brijbag looked both ways and pushed her Disney Princess bike across the street. She lifted the front wheel over the curb and began to go up the slow hill of an asphalt lot.

It was a Saturday morning. Brian Brijbag had taken off his daughter's training wheels.

He put his right hand on the end of the right handlebar and his left hand on the back of the seat. Then he took his right hand off.

"I'm just going to hold the back, okay?" Brian said.

"Okay," she said.