From the Mountains above the Applegate River

     Nothing warms my heart more than being with family.  I am so proud of who each of them is.     I went to Vashon Island, Washington, las...

      The other day I visited a close friend who lives in a facility for people with dementia and other problems. He is in a wheelchair and ...

On Merritts Avenue, in downtown Atlanta, not far from the Varsity drive-in restaurant  and Georgia Tech University, squatted a old white-w...

      My friend Sarah and I didn't get started on the Long Canyon Trail in the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area until 2:30 in the afternoon,...

      When I came home from Scotland in early July, I had no internet. When at last the technicians  came out, they looked around and fiddle...

      I thought I was going to Scotland just for the hiking, but as it turned out, I enjoyed touristy things on the Isle of Skye, where Marg...

      Eight days.  Ninety-six miles. By foot, with packs.       Over the moors, in the blustery wind and driving rain,                      ...