I feel bad for people who don’t adventure outside. They will never know the unique joy of Epic. In the old days it would be long poems or songs, narrating the great deeds of heroes. These days, it’s social media and the stories we tell the like-minded to get a “cool” and the rest to […]
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 […]
My husband told me once that he didn’t like olives but one day he decided he wanted to like olives. So he ate olives until he started to like them. I told him that was the dumbest thing I’d ever heard. Why would you force yourself to do something you don’t like just for the […]
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 […]
I’m beginning to worry I don’t know how to live without chaos. We’ve made it through the longest nights of winter. But it’s still winter. My husband caught COVID, so I did as much as I could while I was still testing negative. This included taking my nieces rock climbing and ice skating for one […]
I signed up to teach ice climbing. I don’t know why I did this, I hate winter. This is my strange way to try and survive it. We were lucky enough to get out for a blue clear day, after a week of biting cold made us a little ice in upstate NY. I thought […]
The winter solstice has come. Each day will get a little longer and a little lighter. I think about how things happen by degrees. Each day feels cold and bleak and the same and the same and the same and then all of a sudden, it’s summer again. And fall again. And winter again. And […]
The tenor of things changes come winter. The days are so short. But there’s still the same amount of time. It’s exhausting. This weekend saw me going from a holiday party to driving around the neighborhood looking at Christmas lights. In the morning I got up to have breakfast with my nieces and Santa. From […]
For years we have been waiting for a stray cat to arrive at our door so we could give it a forever home. Well, he arrived at someone else’s door but came home to live with us in the end. This is Mac. Someone abandoned him even though he is sweet, smart and beautiful. It’s […]
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 […]
