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Jan 35 min read
From Shame to Celebration: Taking Mindful Stock of a Tumultuous Year
It’s Day 1 of 2025, and I’m out of bed down on my yoga mat, in yet another new place, my sixth bed in the last to two ridiculous nomad...
Jun 17, 20248 min read
Rivers of Love and Becoming Marina
Dear friends, thanks for joining me on this healing journey and celebrating my 3-year anniversary on the Ramblin’ Anne road. In Part 1 of...
Jun 13, 20246 min read
Come Full Circle - In Life and In Love
Thank you for following my Ramblin' Anne progress, dear readers. This is the first of a two-part series reflecting back on where I've...
Dec 5, 20234 min read
My Creative Triumvirate and the Transformative Power of (Re)Writing
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, 20233 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 202211 min read
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, 20224 min read
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...
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