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.

Lightening the load
Every little bit counts.

The hard part
Be there then. Be here now. Be here.

So many stories
On the road (path) again.

Me and mi mochila
On the road (path) again.

And then there were two
My life in cats

Sit with it
It is okay to be sad.

There is no otherwise
Resilience is a muscle.

Oh Barbie

The end, my friend
She let me tell this story.

Waiting for paradise
Dreaming of the life you WILL live? Or living the life.

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

The utter random-ness of it
There are Random Acts of Kindness, and then there is just the utter randomness of life.

The Wheel is Turning

They. Them. We. Us.

Suppose
Suppose you want to be visible and invisible?

Be astonished

My sadness

Where I belong

I worry
