The Lauren Chronicles
Past Blogs 2013-May 2025
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Here you will find my essays (2013 to mid-2025) about hiking and home, love, loss, and resilience. Also cats, the state of the world--and of my garden.
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Unimaginable
On the road. Again. Willie and the imaginable future.
All that brought me here
There’s magic here.
Simon says
Does he remember? I think so.
Teacher, teacher
To teachers who make a difference, in the moment, in a life.
The power of absence
The tension between what is and what isn’t.
Will we explode?
Not the new normal. Not normal. No.
Go. Stay.
The wanderlust of a homebody.
Where (how) did we go wrong?
Oh, America. Love it. Leave it. Mourn for it. Fight for it.
Juntos
What unites us. Let us not forget that.
Los Quatros Amigos
A shared experience. A true friendship.
Lessons in (al)chemistry
A new hobby, courtesy of the Moors, the Portuguese, and the Internet.
A love letter to Nixon
You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.
A beacon
What it means, what it costs to be unconquerable.
Breathe. Hope. Fight.
We have no choice.
Get off the sidewalk
Our time is now.
The Talented Mr. Talese
All hail the master.
Chaos and confusion
We gather strength. We remember who we are.