I’ve never been to Vermont. So we decided to go to Vermont. We stayed in an old farmhouse, we hiked, we climbed, we ate a lot of cheese. I thought about how regular life is so much lacking in these simple things that I wish I could have all of the time. Time outside, easy […]
First of all, we’re just going to say that Anyssa Lucena of Genuine Climbing is a hero, a role model, a beautiful person, and just an amazing all around individual. If I can be even half as cool as her someday, I will consider myself very lucky. In mid-July she put on this Sunday Sends: […]
I usually get to the climbing area an hour before it opens. Because well… you Gotta get the best climbs. Waiting today for that hour to run down I was struck by how fast an hour goes by these days. As a kid, an hour seemed like an ETERNITY. Now though, it’s gone in a […]
Sometimes I don’t want things to start because I know that means they’ll end. Like weekends, like summer, like a beautiful climb, or a beautiful hike, or a beautiful day, or a delicious meal. As soon as something begins, you get that much closer to the end. I was thinking about this a lot on […]
“I want to be so wrecked by this worldthat there are little pieces of me everywhere.”– L.E. Bowman I left pieces of me on the rocks this weekend. I left bits of me on the roads I drove and with the people I love. I left my laugh in the wind and the breath from […]
A student asked me how much I made teaching Intro to Outdoor Rock Climbing. I did the math and found out it came out to about $6.20 an hour if I divided my pay by the amount of hours I felt like I was “on the clock”. I jokingly said that the money isn’t much […]
I got to see the sign for Peter”s Kill Area Climbing Permits UNavailable change to AVAILABLE this weekend. And I think that’s what joy looks like. It looks like opening day at your favorite place. It looks like sunshine in late March. It looks like a cold, hard day that is also beautiful. This time […]
I find that we all tell ourselves stories about who we are. The reality is that we aren’t actually the person telling the story, we’re the person listening to it. This is important to remember because you have to be careful what stories you tell yourself. Sometimes you tell yourself that you can’t or that […]
I’m still coming to terms with the fact that what I want to be when I grow up has changed. Like, they just don’t tell you that might happen. They ask you what you want to be when you grow up and if you’re one of the lucky ones, maybe you know and you have […]
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 […]
