Asking for help has never been easy for me. I’ve gotten better at it over these last few years of backpacking, in part because it’s the only way I was able to achieve my goal. For instance, without the help I received on the Florida Trail with people shuttling my car around so I didn’t…

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There are many times in my life when I have felt hemmed in without a way out. It was certainly that way as a child growing up in an abusive family. As an adult, making the commitment to do the extremely painful work of healing trauma and reuniting my dissociative parts often left me feeling…

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I spent part of today chipping ice off my solar panels. They’ve been solidly encased in ice for almost a week. Pretty much every day I’ve brushed the new snow off them without being able to make a dent in the thick layer of ice underneath. Looking at the upcoming weather and realizing there was…

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Where to begin? Perhaps by saying, I have thought often of all of you who read my blogs. I’m grateful to those who have checked in on me to see how I’m doing and who donated to the GoFundMe site after my foot was burned. Truly, my connections with people are one of the things…

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I am writing this to inform you all of a major incident which has affected my blogging. And I am asking you to see this as a public service announcement, spreading the word to prevent this from happening to others. Last week I was hiking in Vt with Angela, who was on the verge of…

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I’ve lived below the poverty line most of my life and I’ve done ok. One way I did that was to never eat out or buy new clothes and to almost never spend money on myself. After my ex walked out and cleaned out our bank account, I was even more afraid to spend money…

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