I’m about to work 7 days a week for 20 days straight. What lays ahead are work days that are 15-16 hours long. I will have a regular day job, an evening job, a weekend-long job, and be responsible for the lives of 8 other people on a camping/climbing trip. So this weekend I went […]
just to be aliveon this fresh morningin the broken world.– Mary Oliver, Invitation This weekend felt serious. Though my climbing plans fell through and I worked at the climbing gym instead of climbing outside. My parents rented a boat and instead of a nice day on the lake, we got rained on and ended up […]
Add it to the list of things I haven’t had time for. But it’s Mother’s day and so after working 5 Saturdays straight it was time to go home. To my parent’s, that is. It was gray and chilly but we ate macaroons and blueberry baked goods and walked the pier and had lunch with […]
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 […]
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 […]
The gorges of the Finger Lakes area of Upstate NY were made when the glaciers receded and left eleven great big cuts in the earth behind. The cuts became the lakes, the water that feeds them became the gorges. I told someone once that I’d been to a lot of places, and I felt the […]
Joy is watching my 17 month old niece waddle-run down the hill toward a playground with her arms thrown up in the air. What is there to say about joyful days? Except that you always wish they would never end. The weekend brought me from Binghamton to Corning to Pittsburgh to Corning to Binghamton. Weirdly […]
My youngest niece turned 1 in December and it got me thinking about how much we change in a year. It’s so easy to see it in her. A year ago she was a squashy, helpless bundle that I could hold with one hand. Now she’s walking, chasing balloons, eating cupcakes and doing things. With […]
“Being an adult is just saying “But after this week things will slow down a bit again” to yourself until you die.” – Kristen Anderson-Lopez I keep telling myself that NEXT week I will slow down. I”ve been saying this since April though so I think it’s time to accept my fate. There is no […]
Do you ever feel like things just aren’t going that well? Not like they’re going wrong, exactly, these are all absolutely stupid first world problems. It’s just that sometimes I feel things could be going more smoothly. Like you go to the farm where they have the world’s best apple cider donuts, but they are […]
