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Simply Read: How the Simple Things Can Be the Most Powerful
Over the past 6 weeks I’ve done a lot of soul-searching. It sounds so cliche, and has been written about time and time again. From A Walk in the Woods to Wild, the theme of pursuing new challenges with self-reflection is enough to makes some of us want to vomit in our mouths. But for […]
China Doll Dreams Come True
Launching into the upper crux of my long-term project, my sympathetic nervous system took over. My mouth was cotton and my heart was racing. It was key to get the first finger-lock just right, if not I’d slip out before I had a chance to get pumped. I wiggled my right middle and ring fingers […]
First Ascents and Capsized Canoes on the Green River…
I’m soaking wet and shivering, desperately hanging on to the side of our tipped canoe as the river pushes us along. One day I’ll look back on this moment and laugh, I thought. But for now, this really sucks. Our boat was riding low. We were a team of six with three canoes, setting out […]
Frozen: Remote Places and Cold Spaces
“Let it go! The cold never bothered me anyway!!!” My friend Elizabeth and I sang along with Idina Menzel at the top of our lungs from our rent-a-car, feeling like teenage girls about to go out on the town. But instead, the two of us- far from being teens and far from home- were in […]
Heather Weidner 