How can making a rice & beans dinner on a Wednesday have anything to do with celebration - especially celebration of steadiness? Hello, it's been nine months and a day since my last blog post, but I'm back, and doing just fine. 🙂 Daily writing promptWhat are you doing this evening?View all responses Seriously, I'm... Continue Reading →
As I near the end of 2024, I impulsively wrote this blog post half-heartedly attempting to make sense of my emotions. This is a blog, not an official and important website, eh? Just to contradict the rest of this post 🙂 - I live a fruitful, adventurous, and comfortable life. I am very grateful for... Continue Reading →
Our modern obsession with discussing our mental health issues seems like half of its own problem. We are trying so hard to "solve" our mental health issues that we're only stressing ourselves further from intrapersonal peace. At least, this seems to be a challenge I face when learning to love myself, again. And again. And... Continue Reading →
Is everyone dying around me, or am I just dying inside? The answer is yes, of course; we are all dying bit by bit, within and without. I ask, "May I Talk About Dying?" because the conversation has always felt either forbidden and sacred, or, if you understand me, whimsical. Most photos were taken by... Continue Reading →
Does the endless expanse of flatness make midwesterners constantly existential? Tomorrow is our last day in civilization before we enter the woods tomorrow. Pete and I have planned five loops or in-and-out backpacking excursions, returning to society in Salt Lake City for a relaxing end-cap, for me. Then Pete's going on two more excursions with... Continue Reading →
Let me get this straight - y'all out here enjoying writing? You mean writing, expressing in general, doesn't grip you by the throat like a noose until you've choked out the mass of swirling thoughts in your mind? It doesn't stalk you from the corner of the room, resenting you for not feeding it in... Continue Reading →
My phone-wallet-keys method keeps me leaving the house prepared more than anything else in life. In fact, it's this mental behavioral technique that keeps me (wrongfully) thinking I'm an actual grown adult. The full list is phone, wallet, keys, knife, water bottle, sunglasses! Daily writing promptWhat is the most important thing to carry with you... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptWhat are your future travel plans?View all responses My 2023 Travel Plans were set by the end of January. I tricked y'all, cause this post is more about travels I've done this year than the travels we intend for the future. Between my best friends in LA and NYC, dad in Florida, my... Continue Reading →
Are you curious what our Backpacking Gear List looks like? It's been a while since my last blog post, due to our backpacking in Greyson Highlands and Mount Mitchell for the Guilford County Schools' allotted spring break week. And to be honest, we had such an amazing, connected-to-nature, absent-of-stress vacation that the week back to... Continue Reading →
Friday, Nov 26, 2021 Every couple of years, it seems I am reminded of my passion for writing… as well as my proficiency in it. And the utility of it. The beauty in the meanings of words, in the histories behind the meanings. I am, intermittently, by the years, reminded of my most explicit form... Continue Reading →
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