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The Love You Take…Part I

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

I was walking past the Gap last night on my way home — the one in the East Sixties. They were taking down the store — apparently, it is closing.  I got nostalgic for a moment.  I had an illustrious … Continue reading →

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Ah Ha

Posted on December 24, 2011 by

Sarah Rosemary at Sunny Side Up and I are hosting our own Reverb11, a series of prompts to look back on 2011 and manifest the new year.  Please check our Reverb11 pages for details, and join in! Prompt for December … Continue reading →

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1,000 Words

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Sarah Rosemary at Sunny Side Up and I are hosting our own Reverb11, a series of prompts to look back on 2011 and manifest the new year.  Please check our Reverb11 pages for details, and join in! Prompt for December … Continue reading →

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Resistance is Futile — OR — Another Tutorial from Hell

Posted on October 22, 2011 by

When my group of friends was going away to college, the mother of my friends Rik and Ash decided that we needed a tutorial on how to survive our university days.  So she made us a video in order to teach … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop – Epilogue

Posted on October 1, 2011 by

(Several people had asked me “So you climbed this mountain together; you’ve done x, y, z…what’s next?”  There is no one better to answer that than another of the Women of Winesday — one who perhaps has a bit more … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop — Part VII: The Summit

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

We climbed for 8.5 hours before we reached the summit. We started in pitch dark, with lamps on our heads, and climbed in meditative silence.  In my head, I had attacked this like a marathon — divide and conquer; deliberative … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop – Part VI: The Getting There

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Mount Whitney, as you may now have learned, is the tallest peak in the Lower 48.  It is one of the “fourteeners” in the Sierra Nevadas — a term hikers, climbers, backpackers use to describe peaks over 14,000ft (4,267.2 meters).  It … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop – Part V: The Back Story

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Here’s part of the story that nobody knows — the start of the story of how we got to the mountaintop. Back in December, I was badly sunburned, sitting in a bar in Santiago, Chile.  I had gone to South … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop – Part IV: Mums

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

(In the continuing spirit of reflections on friendship and our Mount Whitney climb, I’ve also asked my mother to write a guest post detailing my parents’ experience of joining us as Team Whitney Support Squad, and of observing the Women … Continue reading →

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The Mountaintop – Part III: Tink

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

(What I didn’t mention is that I asked some other friends to write about friendship, and their experiences with this group generally.  Tink and I have been friends for over a decade — she is my best friend from college … Continue reading →

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