I never did take a big bike trip this year — which I’m not really so sad about, given the circumstances, though maybe a little sad. I still had some pretty good adventures in a stupid and crazy COVID year, so I feel pretty thankful about that, lose-myself-in-the-wilds bike trip …
“You are an odd woman,” my brother told me the other day. We were talking on the phone, and he was perplexed by the fact that I was so excited about the time I’d just spent staying by myself in a cabin in the woods in the snow. I guess …
Check this out: a whole string of Cascade volcanoes, starting with Broken Top, then moving, left to right, to South, Middle, and North Sisters, then, smaller, Mt Washington, 3-Fingered Jack, then Mt Jefferson. Just out of the frame after that is Mt Hood: Cascade volcanoes stretching right from where …
For someone who spends most of her working life with people, who volunteers for farmers markets and other things with people, who teaches and mentors people, who loves being part of communities of people — for all of that, often, I just want to disappear. That’s not as creepy or …
