Fall in love with being alive
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 saw this sign coming down from hiking Colvin and Blake. I have to be honest; I took the easy route. My only excuse for this is that I already had 12 miles on my legs and they were shaking like jello, and it had started raining. I hope you always choose the scenic route […]
They were calling for rain and so plans change. I had wanted to do the Dix Range, all 5 peaks. Instead I just did Colvin and Blake and it was perfect. If you want to do what I did: We got up at 4am and had our reservation at the AMR parking lot at 5:15am. […]
I have less than 65 hours each week in which to live. The other 103 hours are taken up by work, sleep, eating, dog walking, showers, chores, and all the other miscellaneous tasks of being an adult in this world and this time. And you know what I think all the time? Monkeys just get […]
“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 […]
Sometimes it feels like I’m looking for the edges of me. Like I’m going as far as I can to see what’s there, at the end of the world. It feels like my insides are flat and I might one day find where it ends, where the whole picture of me comes together like a […]
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 […]
I try to think that I am a climbing rope. A climbing rope can take the force of a fall up to 5000 pounds, way more weight than can actually be generated by climbing. I am a climbing rope and I can bear 5000 pounds and that is more weight than can actually be generated […]
I don’t remember when the woods started calling me. Maybe it was my whole life and I wasn’t listening that hard. But I do remember when my insides started screaming and the woods made them quiet. I was working 80 hours a week for a company I hated and people that didn’t care about me. […]
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 […]
