Fall in love with being alive
I haven’t taken a poll or anything but I’m reasonably confident in saying people are afraid of trying new things. I use this conversation with my husband as evidence: Me: I really kind of HATE doing new thingsHim: Me too, I just wouldn’t do it There’s comfort in the familiar. There’s fear, anxiety, discomfort and […]
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 […]
I sometimes try and see the world through my niece’s eyes. And it’s terrifying. I know I’m lucky to have grown up in a time before social media, before we walked around with small computers in our pockets that controlled our minds and tracked everything we do. I know I couldn’t live without technology because I’m […]
For a while I didn’t like teaching the learn to climb classes at Cornell because I felt like I didn’t really have anything to teach. That said, I’m stupid because this is all you really need to know when you’re first learning to climb: I guess I have at least two things to teach, then.
My mom has been occupying this earth for about 22,265 days. And she’s awesome. For her birthday we got endless crab legs. We drank expensive whiskey. We gambled, swam, went in a hot tub and walked funky hotel carpets from our room to the casino and back so I could get my 10,000 steps in […]
