The Lauren Chronicles

Past Blogs 2013-May 2025

I'll be using the Substack platform to publish my essays now. I invite you to join me there. It's only Life After All.

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.

Lauren Kessler 7/26/23 Lauren Kessler 7/26/23

These pages tell our lives

Books, spine out on the shelves, are entries in a diary we didn’t know we were keeping.

Lauren Kessler 4/19/23 Lauren Kessler 4/19/23

There is no me without you

Lauren Kessler 4/5/23 Lauren Kessler 4/5/23

What's behind the curtain

Lauren Kessler 7/13/22 Lauren Kessler 7/13/22

The author as relentless self-promoter

Lauren Kessler 5/31/22 Lauren Kessler 5/31/22

The Revolving Door

Lauren Kessler 5/25/22 Lauren Kessler 5/25/22

The rocky road from caged to free

Lauren Kessler 5/11/22 Lauren Kessler 5/11/22

Why did I write this book?

Lauren Kessler 4/26/22 Lauren Kessler 4/26/22

Walk a mile in my shoes

Lauren Kessler 4/19/22 Lauren Kessler 4/19/22

Strangers in a strange land

Lauren Kessler 4/13/22 Lauren Kessler 4/13/22

Out of step, out of time

Lauren Kessler 4/6/22 Lauren Kessler 4/6/22

Walking the talk

Lauren Kessler 3/29/22 Lauren Kessler 3/29/22

I HEART librarians

Lauren Kessler 3/3/21 Lauren Kessler 3/3/21

You missed me, right?

Lauren Kessler 12/19/20 Lauren Kessler 12/19/20

A Nutcracker-less Year

Lauren Kessler 10/14/20 Lauren Kessler 10/14/20

Look! A new look!

Lauren Kessler 3/4/20 Lauren Kessler 3/4/20

Women's Work

Lauren Kessler 12/31/19 Lauren Kessler 12/31/19