Today marks Day One of my voluntary stretch of unemployment. I’d meant to spend the day at Bernheim Forest, hiking the Millennium Trail, but I didn’t get my backpack together last night and didn’t want to set out this morning unprepared. It’s going to be hot, and take at least 6 or 7 hours, so […]

The countdown has begun in earnest, and in fewer than 60 days, Trenton and I will be residents of Nederland. I haven’t truly allowed myself to absorb that information and luckily there are plenty of details to keep track of and plans to make distracting me from feeling the feelings that I know will come eventually. […]