I saw this sign coming down from hiking Colvin and Blake. I have to be honest; I took the easy route. My only excuse for this is that I already had 12 miles on my legs and they were shaking like jello, and it had started raining. I hope you always choose the scenic route […]
They were calling for rain and so plans change. I had wanted to do the Dix Range, all 5 peaks. Instead I just did Colvin and Blake and it was perfect. If you want to do what I did: We got up at 4am and had our reservation at the AMR parking lot at 5:15am. […]
I don’t remember when the woods started calling me. Maybe it was my whole life and I wasn’t listening that hard. But I do remember when my insides started screaming and the woods made them quiet. I was working 80 hours a week for a company I hated and people that didn’t care about me. […]
I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t even know I could do it. The entire time. I didn’t know I could. The entire time. But I did. I hiked two high peaks in February. We started at the AMR parking lot in Keene Valley, NY. This was followed by a really annoying miles long […]
Birthdays are hard as a grown up. The joy has gone out of growing older. I’ve got wrinkles and body aches and a job and a mortgage and a car payment and everyone tells you when you’re a kid that it isn’t better to be an adult but you don’t believe it until it happens. What […]
Sometimes I feel like I spent years waiting on someone or something. These days I try not to. These days if I want to do a thing, I just do it, with or without someone to do it with. This is hard. I know we are pack animals at heart, but I think about all […]
They say it’s rained every weekend for 2 months straight. No wonder my soul feels gray. My dog was restless and following me around the house while I was trying to do chores. So we went for a short hike. There was a lot of mud. But we both came back breathing a little easier. […]
Sometimes happiness feels like a broken heart. It’s like that sad song you love, it’s like crying when you’re happy, laughing at a funeral. Joy and sorrow are so close, and inescapably human. I was so happy these days in Indian Lake that it broke my heart. I kept asking myself what we did to […]
Religious folk say suffering is good for the soul. I don’t know about that but I know that the suffering you take on yourself is good for the mind. Sometimes it’s called type 2 fun. Sometimes it’s like this: life is hard and so you make yourself suffer on purpose so the hard things don’t […]
In late Winter when I see robins I know Spring is coming. In late Summer when I see deer I know Winter is coming. This week I saw two doe and two fawns in the cemetery in Ithaca. I saw two bucks and two doe in my neighbors yard when I let the dog out. […]
