Stopping in my tracks, I feel a flicker ignite into a raging flame of a dormant fire inside me;myshame explodes.It holds me still, stuck in an avalanche of guilt and fear of the loss of love, because abandonment is my thing. I breathe deep screaming out that I am here, in my own ...
Sammy:Well, that is some fog right there. A whole lot of fog we’re walking into. Holy shit, that’s some snow. The minute we entered New England—Connecticut, to be exact—from New York. April 22, who would have thought. There’s some snow coming down. A little bit, but it’s...
As somebody who has traveled to the Seattle area at least 20 times, Mount Rainier has tempted me for decades. For many years, I told myself I would climb it someday, but I never made it a priority. There was always tomorrow. As I approached the age of 50, I decided to quit wastin...
Today, as in much of life, we have experienced both joy and sadness, exhilaration and anxiety. After being on birth watch for the better part of a week, we were overjoyed to discover Daisy in real labor. But the joy quickly turned to anxiety when it became clear that in spite of signi...
I love this. I fucking love this. As long as I feel good and healthy, there’s nowhere I would fucking rather be than on top of a mountain. I’m looking at Glacier Peak across there, and now we’re at 6,000 feet and that’s a couple 1,000 feet higher. Hella snow now on tha...
"It's always summer here, Anne," Leslie had said one day; and all who were the guests of that house of dreams felt the same."The Enterprise seems to run to obituaries these days," quoth Miss Cornelia. "It always has a couple of columns of them, and I read every line. It's one...
On June 24, Fang Lizhi and his wife, Li Shuxian, spent their last night in China and their first night in a year sleeping outside an elaborately concealed hiding place in the clinic of the U.
So the Talker might say:“When I come home from work, I feel tired and I need some quiet time.But you tell me I’m supposed to spend time with the kids.This makes me feel frustrated.I work hard and I’m exhausted at the end of the day.I feel like I deserve a little time to...
I volunteer at a thrift store. We’re lucky to have a washer/dryer and a dishwasher, but using them takes time and resources, both of which take away from our goals by adding costs. Love the DIY dryer ball suggestion! I’ll be there tomorrow, watching for wool sweaters wi...