I got a massage last week. I’d been looking forward to it this time especially because I hoped the therapist…
Continue Reading- Accountability
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Books
- Cambridge
- Cats
- Challenge
- Chicago
- Cleaning
- Crafts
- Daily Journal
- Day Job
- Electronics
- Essay
- Fandom
- Fantasy
- Fiction
- Fitness
- Flute
- Food
- Fool
- Goals
- Grief
- Gym
- Hair
- Headaches
- Health
- History
- Hockey
- Home
- House
- IBS
- Judging
- Languages
- Monsters
- Music
- Nominee Project
- Pain
- Philosophy
- Photos
- Poetry
- Political
- Publishing
- Race
- Ritual
- Romance
- School
- SciFi
- Snark Alert
- Social
- Song
- Sports
- the stroke
- Travel
- Upper Country Singers
- Video
- Website
- Whine
- Wilderness
- Work
- Writing
Chamberlain Basin 2017 Day 1
Made it to the Big Creek trailhead parking lot. Time to head out. Crossing Smith Creek on the road. The…
Continue ReadingBlackmare Became Stump Lake Days 3 and 4
I got the side of the tent next to some young trees. Without the mesh keeping them out, the branches…
Continue ReadingThe Hot Seat
I tend to be cold. When my husband is stripped down to shorts, pushing me away because my body heat…
Continue ReadingSpinning Wheels
I don’t feel that I’ve gotten very much done in the last week. I haven’t been getting my butt in…
Continue ReadingBlackmare Lake? 2017 Days 1 and 2
We planned on going to Blackmare Lake, but we had also prepared ourselves for the possibility that it wouldn’t be…
Continue ReadingNot Quite What I Planned
I was planning on getting a bit more done over the weekend than I actually did. But this time, I…
Continue ReadingBackpacking Dinner
Long backpacking trips have a way of changing the way you feel about our place in the world, the way…
Continue ReadingNew, Quick Challenge
I have 7 stories that are finished and ready for something to be done with them. I have to stop…
Continue ReadingSkillern June 2017 Days 2 and 3
Heading for a morning dip in the hot spring. It’s definitely still hot. Looking up at the trail on the…
Continue Reading