You can tell how serious I was about running really fast by the fact that I took so many pictures, right?;) . (though how could I not when I spent all day with this kind of loveliness??:) . Running the Mt Margaret backcountry has been on my radar for a …
“I like maps, because they lie.” WisÅ‚awa Szymborska, “Map“ . Looking for a poem recently that I’d read in a writing workshop earlier this year, I came across something I’d halfway written about an old bike-and-backpack trip to Mt St Helens. It’s a story I’d meant to write about here …
A looooong time ago, like maybe two or three years (a long time for a draft to sit in my blog-drafts folder!) I started writing something about consuming vs producing. I’d imagined it to be a piece about how easy I was finding it at the time to fall into …
At the end of March, I was supposed to run a grueling-looking trail marathon with my dear friend Marisa outside of Las Vegas. I “trained” for it for maybe 10 weeks, and during every single long run I took, my mind would at some point inevitably wander to fantasies of …
