aka, if you really love climbing, you climb despite all these things and more after Sei Shonagon’s “Hateful Things”, written a long long, long long […]
Wild Iris, WY, No. 3
A conversation about being old with Steve Bechtel of ClimbStrong, aka, true climbing-nerd stuff In 2017 when Brian and I first went to Lander WY, […]
Death in the summertime
A quick note on my disgust for this season and a eulogy for my sister, Loey I hate summer. There is something about it that […]
Hueco is calling and I must go…
even if it’s just a trip into my memory vault I’m in the mood for Hueco. I’m always in the mood for Hueco. As I […]
Play, prayer, and the precariousness of life.
Brian and I were recently in KY, and on our way to a climbing area, following Google maps, we ended up on what we thought […]
December placeholder
to remind you I’m here in case I don’t get something longer written this month, or, an earlyish end-of-the-year wrap-up, or, me begging you to […]
Henri Nouwen, hospitality, and why my son’s band still practices at our house even though he doesn’t live here anymore
I heard a knock on our front door one beautiful late spring evening: after a hot day, finally cool enough to sit outside and enjoy… […]
Things we lost in the fire
Or, the van is dead! Long live the van! Brian stayed home from church Sunday morning because he’s been ill and was still not feeling […]
Oren moved out
where I give a shout out to The Terrible Cough, The Move, The Camper Van, and Empty Nesting It’s been almost two weeks. He caught […]
