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NaPoMo, Day 7
This morning I woke up to the smell of forest fire. The Pine Barrens were on fire again, and something called a temperature inversion meant that you could smell the fire all the way up to New York...
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where i lived, and what i lived for
I have set a goal for myself that in September or October 2015, I will hike the entire length of the Batona Trail – a 50-mile hiking trail through the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. I will, of...
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take the power back
Slowly but surely I’m getting back to writing. In the meantime, there is music and karate and hiking.
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the surprisingly wild
More than a year ago, I posted this entry, where I set a goal for myself to hike the Batona Trail from end-to-end. I failed the Krav Maga training I attended last spring, and that failure demolished my...
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thru hike prep: July
We’re about 11 weeks out from the thru-hike, which is almost no time at all. The first two days are going to be long ones – 17 miles each, we’re estimating. In order to build up stamina, I have moved...
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thru hike prep: August
The entire month of August slipped by without an update. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t busy training! I’ve upped my distance in the past month – I regularly did roughly 9 miles throughout the month of...
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hiking log 4/9/17
After a long (long long) hiatus from blogging, I’m going to try again. I started a hiking log by hand and filled that up pretty quickly; I figure it’s actually a bit easier to try to do this digitally...
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hiking log 4/23/17
A few days late, but… Location: Batsto Village, White Loop (Wharton State Forest) Time: 11 am – 1 pm Distance: 4.50 mi Pack Weight: 20 lbs Time on Trail: 1:40:00 Splits: Mile 1: 21:14 Mile 2: 26:44...
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hiking log, 4/30/17
A week late this time. Location: Batona Trail, Ong’s Hat (Wharton State Forest) Time: 10:45 am – 12:30 pm Distance: 3.02 mi Pack Weight: 20 lbs Time on Trail: 1:18:04 Splits: Mile 1: 23:47 Mile 2:...
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hiking log, 5/7/17
Location: Franklin Parker Preserve, Yellow Trail Time: 10 am – 1 pm Distance: 6.00 mi Pack Weight: 20 lbs Time on Trail: 2:40:40 Splits: Mile 1: 21:56 Mile 2: 25:55 Mile 3: 34:50 Mile 4: 27:04 Mile...
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hiking log, 5/27/17
(there was definitely a 6 mile hike on 5/21 that I can’t be bothered to log. It was a good hike though.) Location: Batsto, Blue & White Trails (Wharton State Forest) Time: 7:40 – 9:40 a.m....
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spring in new jersey begins with a snowstorm
Resurrection is a slow process. But I’m trying. Big changes in the air right now. Big shifts in the universe. Coming up: I’ll be guest-editing the Poets Resist feature over at Glass: A Journal of...
View Articleyou will need: curiosity, kindness, stamina, a willingness to look stupid
(title taken from Austin Kleon) I spent the month of April guest-editing the Poets Resist feature at Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Let’s be clear: I haven’t written consistently in several years. I...
View Articleit’s hard to rely on my good intentions
I know that it's really just committing to failure to set resolutions at the start of a new year - so I'm not going to do it. This is not a post in which I claim to be recommitted to blogging. But I...
View Articlereaction: the interestings (or, in which i consider what it’s like being a...
Just last week, I finished Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings. Donna suggested it and told me it was her favorite of Wolitzer's work - she's pretty good now at helping me find books that will be...
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At the beginning of April, I started a weekly gig as a volunteer at a local wildlife refuge. Every Saturday morning I spend four hours in the animal hospital, covering a variety of assignments....
View Articleear follow up
The bead popped out on its own, no doctor necessary. Jacob won’t be doing that again.
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cape may post-cap
So it was an intense weekend in Cape May at Peter Murphy’s Winter Getaway. I spent time in two 2.5-hour sessions of workshopping, started seriously thinking about plans for a full-length manuscript (it...
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pose a lyrical question to a random sample of im chat contacts. experience hilarity ensuing. or something. me: why you at the bar if you ain’t poppin’ the bottles? and, further, what good is all the...
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