Fall in love with being alive
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 […]
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 […]
All I want for Christmas is to climb forever. I want to see all of the high places. I hope for the holidays you find a passion that leads you to new heights, metaphorical or literal.
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 […]
