I’ve been doing an awful lot of from-home wandering lately, which has been a super fantastic way to get to know our extended neighborhood. I mean, I always wander, but given that I have much more time lately, my wanders have become a little farther-flung and a lot more concentrated …
I harbor this fantasy in life about living somewhere with trails and wilderness just outside my door. From my little cabin in the woods, I would step out and breathe fresh air, hear my resident varied thrush, and start running for miles on end, never setting foot on pavement, not …
This is one of those posts where I’m writing about a thing that happened a million years ago now (or, yknow, a few weeks ago;) — but that’s how it goes sometimes. So imagine, if you will, back in the holiday season, when people were excited about lights and ornaments …
This is my buddy John: (awww happy in the Gorge last weekend, picture by John) . Way back in the day, we used to work together — his classroom was just down the hall from mine and we both taught Language Arts. In fact, he got all of my students …
