Recovery

I actually wrote this yesterday, Tuesday, but somehow put it in my drafts folder instead of the published folder.   Today is better still, after a massage yesterday afternoon (ouch!)
Also, a link to a few more photos from the walk. 
Yesterday, I was pleased  to realize my body felt okay.   A little weary, but that’s to be [...]

Avon Walk…at last!

This is me, starting out this morning in Dillon, Colorado on the second leg of the Avon Breast Cancer Walk in the Rocky Mountains. As you can see, the scenery was well worth every single step, all by itself.
Far more worthwhile were the stories I heard along the way, and the tags I [...]

Stranded

This, too, is travel:
I’m eating the chocolate cookie they gave me when I checked in at the business man’s special, a Holiday Inn or Ramada, one of those.  Not far from the airport, where I was stranded all afternoon.  Some plane didn’t make it for hours and hours, and it stranded lots of us.   The [...]

Santa Barbara Harbor and the girls in the basement

For the past three days, as I showered, or chatted with a student or another writer, or walked from one hotel to the other, the girls in the basement have kept up a little series of nudges.  “Now? Can we come out and talk now?”  
Teaching, however, takes a lot of heart energy, mind energy, and [...]

California dreamin’…tidbits

Celebrity sighting today: John McCain, no more than 20 feet from the room where we were about to begin our memoir class.  He is very small.  I’m not sure why that surprised me so much, but it did. 
For those looking for the voice worksheet, find it here: http://my.sbwriters.com/profile/BarbaraSamuel
I’m blogging tomorrow (Wednesday) at Writer Unboxed.  A [...]

More things I like about California

A mellow day, the calm before the fierceness of teaching and talking to come.   I walked down to the faculty meeting and then caught a ride back with the wonderful Mary Hershey , who is teaching humor at this conference.   I worked for awhile on class materials, making sure everything is in shape for tomorrow, [...]

Extravagant California

I landed in Santa Barbara this afternoon.  I’m here for the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, but this year decided to stay somewhere outside the hermetically perfect conference hotel.   I’m about a mile up the beach, just right.  My room overlooks the pool. This afternoon, I set out on foot in the deep heat (93 degrees, which [...]

Avon walk and a critique offer

The Avon walk is in two weeks, and I would love to raise just a little more.  Everyone has been enormously generous, and I knew I could count on you all to help with this cause.  Thanks for listening to my training logs and my little whines.  To make a direct donation, go here.
Everyone [...]

Look what beauty there is in the world!

While in NYC, Younger Son, his girlfriend, and I, visited the Museum of Modern Art. I had not visited, and it was high on the GF’s list, since she is an emerging photographer. The building itself, created to offer angles and perspectives and surprises and glimpses, as much a work of art [...]

You just put one foot in front of the other

25 days until the Rocky Mountain Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.   Two things make this event a little different:  it’s the first “destination” event, and it’s being held in a breathtakingly beautiful spot in the Colorado Rockies.  Keystone to Dillon to Breckenridge (for those who know the area.)   And there is an “altitude checkpoint” at 13.1 [...]

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