I don’t know what lazy summer days are, I don’t have those. I have days where I’m up at dawn to visit a market or take a hike. I have afternoons filled with rock climbing, house work, playing with my nieces, walking the dog, or family events. As we head steadily into the days of […]
Hiking High Peaks in the Adirondacks feels like a Doctor Who quote “It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the world’s turning, and you just can’t quite believe it ’cause everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our […]
Sometimes I feel like a rubber band being stretched too tight. How do you find the time for all the things you want to do and all the things you need to do? And also get some sleep? I am continuing to eat this summer up and I’m not full yet, but I am a […]
How can I learn to love winter as much as summer? Why am I thinking about winter right NOW? Right now I should be thinking about graduation parties without having to wear COVID masks, hot walks down the dusty lake road after dark, fireflies. Right now I should be loving long summer drives without ice, […]
The thing about having adventures is that they’re really kind of awful. Think about it, Luke Skywalker loses his family, his mentors, his hand. Frodo had a really bad time of it, those Narnia kids ended up as kings and queens, sure, but it was a tough go to get there. Adventures just aren’t fun. […]
I did all of the things this weekend. I painted, I did yard work, I met a friend for coffee and went to a farmers market. I went rock climbing at the recently re-opened Cornell Climbing Center. I went hiking, once for Chief’s 10th birthday and again on my way home from climbing to knock […]
I’d like to welcome the blistering hot days of summer. I’d like to welcome hikes spent in the cool shadow of a creek filled gorge, looking for hidden waterfalls tucked in on the side of lake roads. I’d like to welcome running into a hot breeze and feeling it fill up every bronchiole in your […]
Laying in bed with a sliver of sunshine in my face at 7:30am I was trying to convince my tired body to get up and do something. The choice was between a 2 mile run on the treadmill or a 3.5 mile hike with the dog. Both of these things would need to be done […]
Sometimes I do too much. Like this weekend which saw me spanning the Finger Lakes and Binghamton with a mix of things I needed to do and things I wanted to do. Sitting down to write this is the first time I’ve slowed down since Friday. Even our weekend hike felt like it was in […]
I end up off my intended trail A LOT when I’m hiking. I’m really not sure how it happens. One minute I’m following some trail markers. The next minute, they’ve suddenly changed color and I’m half a mile in the wrong direction. Or worse, there’s no markers at all. So I took a compass class […]
