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More Kindness
By Mary Anderson To soothe the little parts of myself that were so shaken up by hitting a deer, I stopped and tried to buy myself a hot chocolate. I say “tried” because when I went to the checkout with my cup overflowing with cocoa piled high with whipped cream, I was told by the…
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Oh, Deer!
By Mary Anderson It wasn’t revenge. I swear. I know that deer are a vector of Lyme disease, and having just been diagnosed with it, it might seem I did it on purpose. I was tootling along Highway 80-West in Iowa. It was dark—about 4 a.m. local time. A big, beautiful deer ran right out…
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Focus
By Mary Anderson Just before I left home I noticed a telltale bullseye on my ankle. “Just what I need,” I thought. “Lyme disease.” I stopped at a clinic on the way out of Vermont and filled the prescription for the heavy-hitting three weeks of antibiotics. Both the doctor and the pharmacist told me, “Make…
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Ready to Go
By Mary Anderson I am making the last preparations before I leave home. I have the van mostly packed. My food boxes are ready to go out. My pack awaits a few last-minute items but is otherwise ready for adventure. I’ve got food to eat while driving across country. I even have my dishes done.…
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Hiking, Writing, and Healing
May 21, 2021 By Mary Anderson As far back as I can remember, I have lived with dissociation that comes with post-traumatic stress. In my early childhood, to survive severe abuse I created separate places in my being where certain experiences lived, walled off from the rest of myself and not able to interact with…
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How to Cross a River
May 20, 2021 By Mary Anderson Mary at a river crossing in New York State. Cross as early in the morning as possible, so the water will be lower, due to cooler night temps slowing down the snow melt. This will ensure you are half asleep when you hit the icy water. Try to assess…
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