Day 1: We are at home,early in the morning, with me timidly asking if I can go for a short run (super short, like twenty minutes, tops). My husband belly laughs for the first time all week. My parents show up mid-morning since they […]
It had been in the back of my mind for months. I would occasionally drift over to the website and play with imaginary numbers. I pictured the “right year” to go on what would be “a once in a lifetime” trip. Then, on what felt […]
Several months ago, my husband mentioned that he wanted to get back into hiking and backpacking (which is really different from camping, because instead of keeping everything conveniently in your car, you actually wear pounds of items on your back and walk far into places […]
Driving up Six Forks Road, I was nervous. In my head, I was thinking that this might be a major mistake, and berating myself for being one of those people who enter every contest that sounds remotely interesting. It was a facebook post […]