Dear Outside Magazine, Please tell me I didn’t read that right. On page 36, in the December 2015 issue, at the bottom of the page, there is a little box called Wishful Thinking. In it are listed “trends, tools and irritations” you hope will disappear in 2016. It’s the last one that made my eyes […]
Its been a quiet couple of months here at Trees With the Fur On, the yearly collapse of my work/life balance occurred in late October, and it has been a rather long road to climb back out of the crater it left. I found my mind was so intensely focused on my work and single […]
All the talk of climate change, combined with the warm warm weather (mid 50’s tomorrow?!?) motivated my theatrical friends and me to finally record the Christmas carol I reworked for a holiday show a few years ago. Strangely it is even more relevant now than it was then. This weird warm fall and winter may […]
I found my self in the car yesterday, driving at midday, and as is my habit, I tuned in to public radio. The topic of yesterday’s midday call in show was technology; various experts were weighing in on hot new essential technology, in anticipation of the post Thanksgiving American shopping orgy. As I listened, I […]
October is here and I finally feel like I have hit my fall stride. The transition from summer to fall is never an easy one for me, as summer’s expansive energy quickly contracts into fall’s regimented schedule and I feel my way clumsily through the ups and downs of the school week. Each new semester […]
Seventeen years ago this past Saturday, August 8th, my father spent his last conscious moments in this world. It was a Saturday just like this past Saturday, a beautiful August morning full of ripening blue berries, blooming sunflowers and all the perfection of Maine’s late summer. He’d been sick all summer, and had finally agreed […]
Yesterday was a big day in Baxter State Park. Ultra runner Scott Jurek completed his 46 day 8 hour and 7 Minute epic hike/run of the entire Appalachian Trail, beating the previous supported speed record by a whopping 3 hours and 12 minutes. (I say whopping sort of in jest, 3+ hours is a lot […]
If you are interested in the outdoors, the Appalachian Trail and the Maine wilderness, and haven’t been following ultra runner Scott Jurek’s attempt to set a new speed record on the Appalachian Trail this month, you are missing out. The current definitive account circulating on line is from Outside Magazine, but if you are interested […]
It’s been all international all the time for me lately. First Iceland (which I am slowly writing about), and then, a couple of weeks ago, a quick overnight to Canada for the third annual Herring Run in Mascarene New Brunswick. And next weekend it’s right back to Canada (the French kind this time) for more […]
The morning of our last day in Iceland, our bags were packed and sitting by the end of the bed, travel clothes piled carefully on top. My husband turned on his phone and I heard him exhale and darkly scoff. It got my attention and when I asked him what was going on he told […]
