Why yes, I am using the 70 degree day to smoke the turkey I bought. We will have turkey sandwiches for days!
Then I did and everything changed. If I’d known what would happen after we started writing—if I’d known what you’d do—I’d make the same choice. I’m a climber. And the journey is always about more than the fall.
The narrative has documents between every chapter that help tell the story. This is the first page.... Just as the mountains were meant to be climbed, we were destined to be friends. You wrote that in your first letter. I was pretty sure you were making fun of me and vowed not to write back.
So...since I've been sharing photos of me climbing, I thought I'd share the opening to the "climbing" book I have under submission right now...which was inspired by the beyond amazing Lydia Brady and her historic 1st ever summit of Everest for a woman not using supplemental oxygen....
There are days where "tired" doesn't even begin to describe me. Today is one of those days....
Everyone in our house is finally recovered from the ILMEA concert weekend. The kid loves that I got a picture of him on the jumbotron.
This is the best picture!