Still here~ Laurie and I had been playing phone/email tag for a while and finally yesterday moring the ice melted! Answering the phone with cup of coffee in hand, there she was-actually on the other end! I had quite a bit of questions pent up about my pack and toiletries. Did you know that toiletries weigh the most in a backpack? Crazy right! I had questions like, should bring moisturizer or not, suntan lotion or not, facial cleaner or not. You know, how ru...

It's been a trying time as of late. Several weeks ago I wrote saying that my foot was feeling better...well actually this turned out to not be true. My foot has been so painful that I actually can not wear shoes nor walk at times. Being that I am supposed to be training to walk The Camino de Santiago on July 1st-this is a problem. About a week ago reality set in and I let go of the trip. It was a difficult decision. I had become an anxious wreck. Continu...

If you don't know what to do~just listen ~here~ the Earth barren rotted limbs covering called my name no roots lie here under this fallen sycamore putrefied, dark, and moist night crawlers, maggots, worms feast on so called delicacies of this underworld till and defecate their way through lunch preparing the land for spring.

The snow is finally melting here in Wendell. I went for a 5 mile walk. Something I have not done for a week. My orthodics don't fit correctly and they bruised my right foot. I have been jonesing about not walking because all I haven't been able to wearshoes only flip flops! Even at school. But today the sun called and I am happy to say that I did it!!!! I walked 5 miles and am basically...ok!

A couple of years ago I watched the movie The Way written by Emilio Estivez. It was about a man who lost his son on The Camino. They did not get along very well . In fact the father wasn't happy that his son wanted to do The Camino. But his son went anyways and died while traveling. The father had to travel to Europe to claim his son's dead body. He did that and decided to walk the Camino with his son's ashes in his own backpack. He finished the walk for h...