Thoughts on taking a break from climbing… or not I see deep play everywhere, expressed in infinite ways. It captures, for me, a quality of […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 4: Big Iron on His Hip, aka, the one that got away, or, First Post of 2024!!
Failure is often a better teacher, and maybe even a better motivator, than success. For me, Big Iron On His Hip is a problem at […]
band practice: or, failing at the spiritual discipline of patience during Advent
I know I have written before about being glad that the band, Corduroy, practices here in our house, feeling like the cool parents who allow […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 3: Reconnaissance, or 5 things this trip taught us.
The word reconnaissance, when not used as a military term means, “preliminary surveying or research.” It has its roots in the French reconnaitre (recognize) and […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 2: Different than I remember
Vacations are the act of grabbing minutes and hours and days with both hands, stealing against the inevitability of time. Cold Tangerines About a year […]
Hueco Tanks 2023, No. 1: 8 days to departure
We’re getting ready to go on a road trip. Less than two weeks to go now, and we’re already stressed to the ends of our […]
In consideration of home
There’s no need to go looking for home… unless you’re lost… from Staying Put, Scott Russell Sanders For a long time, I have been reluctant […]
Climber-mom-rant, a retrospective
Last year at this time, I was thinking about writing a big rant about about how my sons don’t want to climb or be climbers. […]
Not one of the boys.
Growing up with only sisters, I often heard and accepted as funny, Oh your poor dad. To which we’d quickly respond, because we thought we […]
#brian&jen2.0
So, last week we bought another VW Eurovan. From 2009 until 2016, we owned a 2001 VW Eurovan Westphalia Weekender, and we loved it. I […]
