Entries from September 2008

Yes, Kids, Your Mother Used to Do Unnatural Things with Her Body

Date September 1, 2008

I’ve been to the pool maybe three times all summer. If I go, then Julie’s got someone to handle Alana so she gets to splash around more with the boys. All three times I’ve gone, she has also done a bit of reliving of her youth by seeing what she can do on the diving […]

Gilligan on the AT Revisited: 01-Sep-1993

Date September 1, 2008

This is a 5-month long series of blog posts that are the entries in my journals written on most evenings as I hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1993. The journal entry appears first — indented — and then any additional commentary from my 15-years-removed perspective follows. 9/1/93 – Wed. I made it out of Hanover […]