And when the little winding tail Goes burrowed in the sand comes at me like the Cheshire cat who still,…

The first memory I have of my mom is vague. It’s barely there, like my finger tips touching a vapor.…

Today was a perfect, absolutely blissful, day for a hike. I was craving the backwoods after an off-week. Luckily, the…

I wanted to share and recall a hike from a couple of months back: January of 2021 and my Gryphon…

“Moreover, people who are taught that learning is a struggle that often involves making errors will go on to exhibit…

View of the ancient, rolling Shenandoah from Old Rag, photo by E. H. Uminn, 2021 “When despair for the world…

“The mountains- Tinker and Brushy, McAfee’s Knob and Dead Man–are a passive mystery, the oldest of all. Theirs is the…

I am not sorry about the fact that I am geeking out over a second summer of weekly Appalachian Trail…

I heard a song a few days ago that I hadn’t heard in about two decades. However, several fast, flickering…

“You can do anything, but not everything.” -(Linked to David Allen’s musings). “A limited mind cannot think freely. Art lives…