by jo | Aug 25, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
I don’t see very many writers who even try to write about the hard things, so the fact that I do it at all seems to set me apart somewhat. The writers that do, do it incredibly, and I learn from them regularly. But that’s something I often hear as feedback: You write...
by jo | Aug 19, 2015 | Everyday Stories, fitness and health, Jos __ before __ Birthday lists, Memoir & Essays, Travel
A quick story: I was out disk golfing (courtesy of my Jo’s 26 before 26 list I’m now a regular disk golfer). We came up to a pin and there was something in the pin. “What is that?” I asked my friend Brian who was closer to it. “It’s...
by jo | Aug 4, 2015 | Everyday Stories
I am in my last days of being a 25-year-old. Friday I will turn 26. Since my last birthday I have moved twice, to two different states. I have been to 5 foreign countries (two of them for the first time). I have visited and been visited by friends from around the...
by jo | Jul 28, 2015 | Everyday Stories, Memoir & Essays
This is why I write about the things that are uncomfortable. As I’ve started to share my story in less vague terms in writing, I’ve encountered opposition, which I expected. What I didn’t expect was that the opposition would come, often, in the form of a question: Why...
by jo | Jul 14, 2015 | Everyday Stories, fitness and health, Memoir & Essays
It’s a weekend afternoon and I’m sitting out in the front yard, looking at my slack line slung between two trees while I write this. I was just on it a moment ago. And again several moments before that. And again several moments before that. That’s how slack...
by jo | Jul 7, 2015 | Everyday Stories, fitness and health, Memoir & Essays, Travel
I wanted to climb another 14er. And I wanted to climb it alone. Colorado calls mountains above 14,000 feet in elevation “14ers” and they have many of them in the state. The previous fall I had climbed my first — Mt. Bierstadt, 14,060’ at the summit, 2840’ elevation...