Dan and I are spending this week hiking and camping at Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. The campground is close to empty with our neighbors being an audacious …
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
There’s a lot of airway noise right now. Accessing the news takes courage, as one hears everyday rants, as fingers point, and as everyone who is talking is completely convinced …
Stardust and a dose of quantum mechanics
It all started when I was having my hair cut. I overheard two young stylists talking about moissanite engagement rings. Moissanite?
A few days later, I told a friend about this …
Finding a heaven
Husband Dan and I have just spent a week in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Containing over 1,200 square miles of land and set in the Chihuahuan desert, it is …
Footprints: Hiking Enchanted Rock
Dan and I recently hiked Enchanted Rock monolith, a billion-year-old pink granite rock a few miles outside of Fredericksburg, Texas. This huge stone rises 425 feet above the base, is …
Gypsies
After Christmas, when the rainy cold winter makes itself known, Dan and I often become gypsies. We take our colorful caravan (RV), hook up our trusty steed (Toyota Tundra), and …
Christmas orphans and existential questions
Every other year Dan and I are Christmas orphans. With sons who live over 2,400 miles away, and who each have another set of parents to please, every other year …
Marco and fast-moving mudslides
Since the first part of December, my life has felt like a fast-moving mudslide.
An ill-considered, inadequately dressed, windy and cold 4-mile hike around a mountain lake resulted in a dreadful …