My Creative Triumvirate and the Transformative Power of (Re)Writing
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I’ve reached a milestone, friends. I hold in my hands 40 years’ and 350 pages worth of memories excavated, ideas researched, chapters...


- Nov 22
- 3 min
Gratitude for Even What We Don’t Have
In this season of Thanksgiving – one of gratitude for abundance – how come I find my mind drifting to the dearth – digging in the dirt of...


- Nov 17
- 4 min
The End is the Beginning
The full-on reality hit me last week when I typed THE END on the memoir manuscript I’ve been working on for, ahem, decades. I cocked my...


- Sep 20
- 3 min
Nomad Blues & Shakespeare Soothes
It’s TGIF evening at The Wedge, parfait pink sky a soft, sweet backdrop to the industrial gravel parking lot scene. I straddle a picnic...


- Aug 24
- 3 min
The Sublime Beauty and Creepy Crawly Horror of Mother Nature
Fireflies and carpenter ants and spiders, oh my. One night, after dinner, my Firefly Lodge host, Deb, and I took a walk down Appalachian...


- Jul 24
- 3 min
Gain Balance by Falling - Nomad Lessons from a Pup
In yoga, getting thrown-off balance is a thing: perturbation, it’s called. Ironically, it’s actually what builds balance. We’re not meant...


- Jul 15
- 3 min
Ramblin’ Anne Contemplates Home
“Commit to settle?” I frowned at the on-screen mirror image of myself, left brow raised, then shifted my gaze to the therapist who stared...


- May 22
- 5 min
Belonging is Healing
I've discovered a far-out phenomenon of nomad life. Whenever I prepare to pack-up and pick-up and leave a place, that’s just when my...


- Apr 30
- 3 min
To Be Enough and Exciting Invitations
I don’t know about you, but I’m the kind of person who works hard, makes strides and, then, in a flash, forgets about them, waves off the...


- Jan 5
- 2 min
Living My True YES Requires a Clear No
I went down onto the yoga mat this morning and folded into child’s pose. The moment my forehead touched ground, a voice rang loud and...


- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
Be Your Own Damn Change in 2023 and You are Perfect as You Are
As 2022 comes to a close, I hearken back to the incredible journey I've been on. When that hawk swooped down before me in a meadow in in...


- Dec 22, 2022
- 3 min
The Wonderous Gift of the Muse
Season’s greetings, dearest friends. I am here, today, on the page, to share some happy holiday cheer. In follow-up to my last post on...


- Dec 16, 2022
- 5 min
Ramblin' Anne Sees Change, Adopts New Moniker
In the blessed off-season on Chincoteague Island, the beach is vacant, the mini-golf is shuttered, the restaurants have gone fishing...


- Oct 7, 2022
- 7 min
You Have Arrived...In the Swamp
The moment I’d giddily anticipated, my big splash arrival, was upon me. “Welcome to the District of Columbia,” the GPS announced...


- Sep 9, 2022
- 7 min
Ramblin' Anne's Wild Ride Home
Hold onto your seats, friends, because this Ramblin’ Anne update is about to take you 2,500 miles across 11 states and three time zones...


- Aug 9, 2022
- 11 min
The Blessed Burden of Freedom
I declare: Enough freedom is enough. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful. When I spotted that soaring hawk in a holler in West Virginia two...


- Jul 4, 2022
- 4 min
Discovering Synchronicity in the High Sierras
Do you believe in synchronicity? Yesterday, I took-off north on Highway 395 from my base in Mammoth Lakes, and headed up the precipitous...


- Jun 9, 2022
- 5 min
High Sierra Transition – Shoulda Had a Gummy
I am in the midst of yet another transition; and I’m taking this one hard. So hard, I wonder why and how I ever set off on such a...


- May 22, 2022
- 6 min
California Dreams and Realities
I came for the healing power of the sea. I came to complete – literally and symbolically – my coast-to-coast journey. I’d envisioned my...


- May 6, 2022
- 2 min
Temecula Transition - Desert to Sea
Out of a deep slumber, from behind the heavy, rubber blackout curtains of El Rancho trucker motel, I awoke, this morning, like clockwork,...
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