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 […]
Failure
I submitted a short essay to an online magazine the other day. Three days later they sent me a rejection message: “Thank you for sending […]
#tbt: Unfinished
I posted this originally on my old anklebiter blog almost exactly two years ago. Here it is again, perhaps a little bit better this time: […]
