Asparagus

The ever-thoughtful Val has a food blog devoted to local eating. One of her recent posts discusses cooking from scratch, and I know there are lots of reasons people don’t do it, but one reason is feeling overwhelmed by the time it might take or simply not knowing how to cook. That’s a good [...]

15 miles is so much longer than 13

Long walk day. Almost five hours, including one small rest to eat an English muffin spread with Marmite and take off my socks for a few minutes. I am somehow so much more tired than I was last week–it seems impossible it was only two miles more than last week’s walk.
Discovery: eating on the [...]

S t u b b o r n *

Originally uploaded by imapix

I was looking for a good creative commons photo of weary feet at Flickr, and found this stunning photo somehow. I really thought many of you would enjoy it as much as I am. Seriously, I can’t stop looking at it. [...]

Shifting economies

My friend Sonia is writing a very intelligent blog you must read if you are interested at all in communication in the new era. Her post, What a Toddler Can Teach You About Success made me start thinking again about the changing publishing economy and where I fit within it. How do you continue to have a [...]

Brave (not)

I wanted to give CR a bungee jump off the Royal Gorge bridge for his birthday. (Not me, HIM.) Turns out they only do it once a year, and this is not it. So I settled for a very high swing that catapults the rider over empty space 1000 feet in the [...]

Walking meditation

Santa Fe Tail in Colorado Springs. Cell phone photo.
I finally got out for a long training walk yesterday. 12 (or so) miles on the Santa Fe Trail, which runs in a ribbon between the railroad tracks and a fast-running creek. Ravens and blue jays were having skirmishes over best nesting locations. [...]

The heart is always story

Note: there are no spoilers of Six Feet Under or Water for Elephants in this post, so feel free to read it. I’m talking about them both, but I’ll be careful not to give anything away.
Over the weekend, I indulged another three episodes of Six Feet Under. In one of them, a major [...]

Staying with it

The work this morning was meant to be tackling the division of a long outline for a side project I’ve been working with, on and off, for awhile now. It’s non-fiction, unrelated to anything I’ve done before, and it’s never easy to charge out there with beginner’s mind and agree to fall on my [...]

The Unbearable Excitement

So, I haven’t been here much. I’m teaching a couple of classes, writing quite a few essays and articles, and plotting out the new book. Feeling exasperated that I still haven’t had a training walk. Sunday, the weather was miserable again–not awful, just that blustery cold that makes you (me) [...]

A flower to start the spring

It has been amazingly cold here. I’m contenting myself with forced bulbs over the kitchen sink. This is one given away at the home show last weekend. Such a lovely color. The sunlight helps me remember that it will eventually be real spring, and I’m posting it [...]

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