Most of our planning was about the food we carried. Jan nixed my idea to eat beans and rice three times a day. “We need variety,” she said. “And texture.” “But none of those instant backpacking meals,” I said. “No way!” Jan agreed. While backpacking in the White Mountains earlier that summer, I’d witnessed the […]
Living in Place
Living Outdoors
Hiking the Long Trail meant living outdoors for twenty-five days. During that time, we had rain, thunder, heat, humidity and frost. We slept inside shelters, in our tent or under the stars, and we cooked, dined and bathed out-of-doors. We spent all day every day hiking, averaging eleven miles a day and eleven hours on […]
“Only One Thing To Do” – Guest Post by novelist Donna D. Vitucci
Only One Thing To Do Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald, his friend and competitor: “You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless—there is only one thing to do with a novel and that is to go straight on through to the end of the damned thing.” The size and breadth of […]
Immigration Stories
Immigration Stories & Stories of Displacement We all have immigration stories, and they all bear retelling. After all, there were only 102 passengers on the Mayflower and there are currently about three hundred and twenty-five million people currently living in the United States. We don’t all have ancestors who stepped off the boat at Plymouth Rock. […]
Living Without
Hiking the length of the Long Trail is a lesson in living without. For twenty-five days on the long trail, I enjoyed living without cosmetics, without showers, without a change of clothes, without social media, email or the internet. And I didn’t miss them at all. NO INTERNET, NO EMAIL, NO SOCIAL MEDIA Of all […]
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