TRAIL ANGELS Even though Jan and I were the ones hiking, we had help from a host of truly divine Trail Angels on the Long Trail. Before we even left, we had help. Back in July, three members of my family with lots of backpacking experience took me on a shake-down hike in the White […]
How To Meet a Big Goal
Following a “footpath in the wilderness” from Massachusetts to Canada has helped me learn how to meet a Big Goal. I’ve just returned from Hiking the Long Trail – the 275 mile recreational footpath that follows the spine of the Green Mountains the length of Vermont. The trip was an unqualified success and, blisters […]
Twenty-five Days on The Long Trail
We were about ten minutes into our twenty-five day hike on the Long Trail, still two miles south of the Vermont border where the 275-mile Long Trail begins, when I said, “We’re not going to make it.” “What do you mean?” Jan asked. We’d been planning this trip for a year and a half; Jan […]
Marriage Equity
The Nature of Marriage was broadcast on Vermont Public Radio on September 1, 2009, the day that Vermont’s first-in-the-nation Marriage Equity Law went into effect, making marriage a right, not a privilege. Regardless, marriage is still hard work. My parents were married on my mother’s twenty-first birthday—not because they were eloping, but because […]
Force Quit
While I’m hiking The Long Trail, I’m reposting old favorites. This one originally published on June 23, 2015. Sometimes, when you have too many programs open on your desktop, the computer freezes, and the only remedy is to perform a Force Quit and shut the machine down. Well, last weekend, I learned that this works for […]
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