This morning I ran as the sun rose among the pine trees. I ran with sunglasses on and eyes squinted half shut. This was not because I had returned home to my cabin at midnight and flung my exhausted body out of bed before dawn at four, but due to the fact that my eyes …
Have I mentioned I hate my neighbor’s? My house sits above the children’s bus stop and every morning I like to sit on my balcony and enjoy the silence of the mountain’s aside from the EXTREMELY LOUD OH GOD WHY DO THEY WAKE UP AT FOUR A.M. birds chirping. I just want to sit on my balcony in my …
Call me a mean person. Go ahead do it. Not going to lie, it might be true. I might be mean, but I’m messing with my cats. It started by accident. I was researching birds of the San Bernardino Mountains (Now I sound like a nerd, I am not a Birder!) trying to figure …
I’m sitting on a piece of flat granite in a silent morning forest. This granite rock is the perfect shape for my butt and my butt needs a break. I’m going to run 13.1 miles today. I’m going to run a half marathon distance for the first time in my life. I’m at mile …
This one time, some where in Brittan, a passport agent yelled at me “Take off that ridiculous hat!” And it began; my love affair with hats so crazy that they inspired anger in government officials. I had bought the wool hat a few days prior in our shopping excursion to Nottinghill. It was a warm wool winters …