At a class IV Rapid on the Connecticut River during my Source to Sea Paddle

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  • How Dissociation Is Like Ice Cream

    By Mary Anderson Many people refer to different aspects of themselves as parts: “Some part of me didn’t want to do that,” for example. Yet how different this is from my dissociative parts. In trying to explain the difference between the parts that we all seem to have inside of us and the parts that…

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  • Old vs. New

    May 8 2021 By Mary Anderson I was looking at the bottoms of my hiking boots from last summer’s 1500 mile hike to see if I really needed new ones. I compared them to a new pair in the store. Yep. It was pretty obvious. The old ones did not have another 1500 miles left…

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  • Writing and Life

    April 30, 2021 By Mary Anderson Today is another day when I have been thinking about the confluence of writing and life. I have been all over the map emotionally, swinging from fear, pain and disconnect, to love, connection and power. I thought of how a wise writer told me to write it all down…

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  • Mountain Perspectives

    April 29, 202`1 By Mary Anderson I’ve been thinking about perspective in writing a lot lately. Today I had this perspective on life. I had a 40 mile bike ride to get home. Half of that was in the rain. I’ve always hated riding in the rain. By the time I got home my hands…

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  • Musing on the Writing Desert

    April 28 2021 The last week or two have been a bit of a writing desert for me, or so I thought. Today, while in the midst of a writing frenzy, wanting to pour words onto the page, I realized that perhaps I don’t need to beat myself up when the words aren’t being written…

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