Category: musings
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Share the Outdoors
One thing I have noticed more acutely this year is that outdoor recreation can seem completely out of reach for people. This is due to a variety of things, including but not limited to ableism, racism, socio-economic restrictions, sexism, homophobia, and much more. Our culture shares the image of the…
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Monitoring Health – LetsGetChecked
#SponsoredContent In this tumultuous time it’s hard to feel comfortable with much in our lives. Even more so, it’s hard to feel healthy when we are stuck at home, away from our routines, and the fridge is consistently five feet away! In a way to feel better about ourselves, it…
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Anything Worth Having is Worth Fighting For
There are days I am so grateful for my body. Days where it lets me push it to where I want, lets me explore and play and laugh and enjoy. There are days where I am angry with my body, days when things don’t work right. When things hurt and…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 35
The final days June 20, 2010 at 11:58 AM Saturday June 19th, 2010Airports (Edinburgh, Stansted, Heathrow) I’m leaving for home today, the hard part of leaving Stuart came and went, I’m still a puddle because of it. I saw another girl crying over likely leaving someone, I really felt her…
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Climb Mountains – Even Small Ones
I went hiking yesterday. It did not go well. My water bladder didn’t seal right (my fault) so I lost half my water, which was comfortably all over my backside leaking from my backpack. It was really sunny and hot, even at 8,600 ft. above sea level. I got altitude…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 18
I read this ten years later and all I can think about is that I had no idea how hard the next year (2011) would be. Goodbyes would be the catalyst of many hard nights for a college freshman. Goodbyes would be the reason I had years of therapy. Goodbyes…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 15
May 5th (on May 4th) 2010Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom Yesterday I awoke to the unpleasant sensation of not being able to swallow without a large amount of pain. Thus I realize I am now getting a cold and knowing how I am it will likely only get worse over…
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Going Forward – Work with a Travel Agent/Advisor
Many people are facing a whole lot of mess when it comes to closures, cancellations, and overall issues with Covid-19. My team has spent the last six weeks cancelling almost everything we had booked for spring, summer and fall 2020. While it’s sometimes unsettling to cancel travel plans, we also…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 13
Edinburgh May 2, 2010 at 2:30 PM May 2nd 2010Stirling, Scotland (but writing on Edinburgh) Since leaving you all on Thursday night many things have happened broadening my horizons more and more. Thursday night as I told you I was going to check out the local club scene and being…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 12
The Ash Cloud of 2010 required several changes of plans during my travels. Around April 30, 2010 I thought I had a new schedule that was good to go, but in reality life had other plans and 19-year-old me got swept up in the romance of new meetings. As a…