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Category: Being & Wellness
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Rural Librarianship Release!
NEW RELEASE! Rural Librarianship: From Surviving to Thriving. Information Leadership for the 21st Century. Tada! After four years of post-graduate work experience, reading and research, constant reflection, PLUS one year of intensive writing, my book on rural librarianship is finally published! Thanks to all who encouraged me and waited patiently to receive this book. Available…
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Injuries & Recovery
As hard as we pushed ourselves from May 2018 until March 2020, no one would have been surprised if we had had injuries. But my recent injury was NOT the result of physical training for an endurance hike… but from a six-month hiking hiatus during which I wrote books. That’s correct. I was injured while…
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Questions of 2021
Questions people have often asked us this year. Are you still hiking? Will you still hike the Appalachian Trail? What have you been doing in 2020/2021? When are you/Are you coming back to Dorcas Library? Here are answers: Yes. We are still hiking, albeit in somewhat reduced capacity. More on this in a later post.…
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Dreams Deferred (Again)
or A Hiker’s Guide to Global Pandemic 20200322 How quickly time has passed since our send-off event at Dorcas Library on Leap Day! So much has happened, in so brief a time. As posted on Facebook, Craig and I have postponed our trek of the Appalachian Trail for the time being. Depending upon travel restrictions…
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20191227 Training Update
We cannot believe how quickly time is passing… Less than 100 days until we begin our AT hike! Still so much to do. A point of clarification from an earlier blog. My childhood memory of the trail crossing a road near Weld was correct but the location was not. At Thanksgiving, my father pointed out…
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not psychotic break
not psychotic break but midlife walkabout for two i want to go on a walking retreat with you i want to lose the false masks the false stress the false problems i want to feel my body working harder than it’s ever done i want to challenge my body, my emotions, and my brain i…
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Thoughts About Blogging
When we began this journey in April 2019, I began to make notes about our training hikes, about our physical-mental-emotional health concerns, about books and resources we were studying, and about equipment selections we were exploring. I called these notes “Essay Germs.” While my goal is to blog at least weekly, I have been more…
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20190523 Baxter State Park
Big & Little Niagara Falls We began at Daicey Pond parking lot, where we signed the register to hike to the falls. It was late May, but there was still snow in some areas of the park. Katahdin trails were not yet opened, and not expected to be opened until June. We hiked steadily, albeit…