This will be swift because I don’t have a lot to say at the moment, and I want to take a bit of a break […]
Writing on Substack makes me want to jump out a window
or hurl my computer to the heavens or both at the same time… Be forewarned, there be vitriol below A couple years back, a friend […]
Crocheting through it
Where thought becomes stitches At the end of January I read a memoir titled 50 Miles by Sheryl St. Germain, who was the director of […]
Slow but steady
5 weeks post-injury, 4 weeks post-surgery… I still spend an inordinate amount of time sitting on the couch, occasionally crutching back and forth the first […]
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 […]
I only read 27 books this year…
or, a very indirect and meandering review of 2022, and a topsy-turvy possibly unhealthy expectation of how 2023 could turn out I have read more […]
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 […]
“Blue is the color of longing…” a couple reasons why I love Rebecca Solnit
From Field Guide to Getting Lost: The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. […]
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 […]
