Essay

Acceptance

My ankle is still bugging me. But I managed to take it on a 24 mile backpacking trip and saw…

I got a massage last week. I’d been looking forward to it this time especially because I hoped the therapist…

I tend to be cold. When my husband is stripped down to shorts, pushing me away because my body heat…

I don’t feel that I’ve gotten very much done in the last week. I haven’t been getting my butt in…

I was planning on getting a bit more done over the weekend than I actually did. But this time, I…

Long backpacking trips have a way of changing the way you feel about our place in the world, the way…

I have 7 stories that are finished and ready for something to be done with them. I have to stop…

Coming back to civilization after a 7 day backpacking trip is strange. I no longer have to wake up at…

I figured out yesterday morning that the 2.5 gallon container that I thought had drinking water in it did not…

Lately, I’ve been having a hard time writing. Or sitting down to write, one or the other. Perhaps both. My…