I’m obsessed with milkweed and Monarchs these days, and keep checking wild milkweed, hunting for hungry caterpillars. Of course I read Eric Carle’s The Hungry Caterpillar to my children years ago. When they were in first grade, I watched their classroom Monarchs unfold, just as I witnessed them metamorphose into competent readers, writers and mathematicians. […]
Living in Place
Is Facebook Necessary?
Facebook for Marketing I opened my first Facebook account in 2010, as a marketing tool when Into the Wilderness, came out. In those early days of social media, Facebook didn’t just connect me to long out-of-touch friends, but also to new readers. As my network grew, I became caught up in the numbers, seeking and […]
Maiden: See the Movie!
First Female Crew in Whitbread Race Maiden tells the story of the first all-female crew to sail in the Whitbread Around the World Race in 1989/90. Skippered by Tracy Edwards, the women didn’t just complete the race, nor did they just win two of the most difficult legs; they did so against the malicious, spiteful, […]
Returning to the Wall Phone that Hung in the Kitchen
My cell phone’s ringer sounds just like the black wall phone that hung in the kitchen of my childhood, the one I learned to dial by standing on a chair. Phone Etiquette When I was tall enough, I answered it the way we’d learned in third grade – from a textbook no less – and […]
Transformation Occurs at the Edge
“Fear is a Story We Tell Ourselves” At 5:30 AM one day in early July, I was roped into a climbing harness and walking backwards off a granite cliff. I had no fear. I’d taken to heart Cheryl Strayed’s words about how fear is a story we tell ourselves, and I’d changed my story: I […]
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