Disclaimer: The author spent minimal amounts of time doodling the featured atlas—as such it’s exact and precise validity cannot be fully held to any serious scrutiny. Should a passerby attempt to use this map as any kind of functional guide, they should do so at their own risk recognizing that […]
Travel
My plan this last weekend was to hike. Plans, yes plans. I was headed to Multnomah Falls or possibly one other place…plans. Plans change. Instead I ended up in Athena, Oregon –a town of about eleven-hundred with a hardy Scottish spirit–for the Caledonian Games. So much for plans, but as it turns […]
Oh dear. I’ve been going through pictures this morning: problematic. First, it’s distracting. Second, it’s time consuming. Third, I don’t really have a reason to be going through them… I just was looking for one picture and the next thing I know distraction is king. So…to make it productive I’ll post a blog […]
I was talking to a friend this morning about life. We were chatting about all the things that seem a little overwhelming at times; the things that make us feel like life is out of balance. As we were talking, we were reminded of our road trip last summer and this island […]
Yesterday, as I was wandering about some blogs I like to read, I ran across this fantastic video. It just made me smile a lot. Stupidly smile. Smile the kind of smile that just keeps smiling. You know the kind of fully-engaged-face, cheesy smile, I’m talking about. This is my […]
Mountains make me feel brave, scared and safe all at once. I’m not sure when I first loved the mountains, but I’m pretty sure it started somewhere in Eastern Colorado circa summer of 1988. It was before the time of ‘kids in the back seat and buckle-up!’ and so I […]