I woke up this morning with Tolkien in my ears, specifically my favorite recorded books version of The Lord of the Rings by Rob Inglis. If you enjoy listening to books and don’t know this version, I recommend him strongly. Inglis beautifully voices the many peoples of Middle Earth, singing deep as a dwarf, high […]
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“Adjust”? Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That
Prepping for house closing, planning for renovations, buying stuff for the apartment and the house … egads this pretzel is making me thirsty.
What the Cool Kids Are Up To
I never run out of ways to write about spending time with my son, Finn, because he never runs out of cool stuff to share with me: fascinating work projects, interesting friends, off-the-wall hobbies. This past weekend I watched him do an experiment in a real science lab (science!), I went on a walk with […]
Yay for the Good People
I mean that universally in this time of craziness around our country; there are a few good people doing good works, still. Thank you if you’re one of them. In my little world, things are also gonna get crazy here. The trailer will be picked up sooner than we expected, so, for the couple of […]
The Shelly & Doug Fun-o-Meter
A funny thing about me moving to Madison is that it’s the home of a special friend, Doug (not to be confused with the other top Dougs in my life). Why funny? Because Doug and I have been running into each other on and off for 30 years, and now we’re going to live in […]
Life Deep in the Desert
Between national parks, we stopped to visit friends Doug and Melanie as they prep their new homebase (an rv, of course) deep in the northern Chihuahua Desert. We drove seven miles down a dirt road with no development in sight to get to this park outside Deming, New Mexico, where Doug and Melanie have bought […]
A Koan for Writing
(Here’s a post unrelated to travel. The end is where I caption the above photo, which is the point of this post.) You know how one small thing someone says can amazingly ring true. Even if you’ve read about this thing a ton or you know about it theoretically, or whatever, you never really felt […]
Pulling Off an Airstream Surprise
I kept quiet about our immediate plans after Houston because the big plan was making a 🎊surprise visit 🎉 and we pulled it off! We had to have every element of the whole week go exactly as planned—the trailer repair and truck tires and hotel stay with Banjo and plumbing appointment for me—and then we hitched […]
You Might Be a Full-timing Airstreamer If …
What a joy it’s been to get to know other full-timing Airstreamers whom we met at the International rally in October. Rachael and Leon run a Facebook group for us, and Tom and Amy inspire me with their activist writing every day. Here’s a fun post Tom left on that Facebook group that, now that […]
How Many Stories Can We Tell?
“Can I tell you about the book I’m reading?” “Did I tell you the funny story about those friends?” “Tell me more about what you want to do.” “Could you tell me how to do that?” The simple story goes: I stayed with Finn for the first half of his vacation on South Padre Island, […]
