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 […]
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. […]
#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 […]
Book review
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains, by Anna Fleming. Canongate Books, Ltd., 2022. I am writing a memoir on rock climbing and […]
What happened when I stopped running
Years ago I stopped running. Seems like it was maybe a couple years ago, but really, I haven’t run in six years or more. I’m […]
Stop it, already.
A great article came out in the latest (last?) issue of Climbing magazine, by a badass 49-year-old woman. Climbing usually does not have a lot […]
One of these days…
The weather is beginning to cool off, though it’s still pretty humid some days. The nights are chilly, and the mornings dawn through a haze […]
Summer Trip 2022, Durango, on the books
When I got sick, fever and all in July, days before we were supposed to leave on our first family vacation in a couple of […]
What is success?
After another day spent falling on a rock climb, another three attempts proving unsuccessful. After a restless night and early morning wake up because of […]
