Fighting Gravity

Fighting Gravity

 We don’t actually have a lot of real hills in Central Ohio.  I took an hour long walk in the neighborhood this morning and Strava tells me I had a 39 foot elevation gain. The local state park where we do most of our hiking has slightly more varied terrain. It’s around a reservoir and…

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

When we first started walking in the late winter, all was brown – except when it was white with snow.  Variation on the theme of brown was cause for notice and celebration. When the harbinger of spring and ramps were out and noticeable, they were noticeable specifically because all else was sameness.  But as the…

Seeing, we see

Seeing, we see

When we walk into the woods it takes a minute.  We start on the trail and it takes a bit to get acclimatized. I would say until you can’t hear road noise anymore, but it doesn’t usually take quite that long. It’s surprising, though, how far in before we begin to see. We notice, of…

Revel Guest Post: No More Mediocre Marriage: 21+ Ways to Revel in Your Marriage by Karen duBarry

Revel Guest Post: No More Mediocre Marriage: 21+ Ways to Revel in Your Marriage by Karen duBarry

I really, really wanted a post about how to *revel* in our marriages  for February, what with it posting on Valentine’s Day and all, and wow, did my friend Karen duBarry from www.livingunabridged.com knock it out of the park.  Jason and I have a really great marriage, but can’t we all always learn more about…