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.
The tame and the wild
Open your eyes. You can fly.
Carry on
I got the music in me.
Icepocalypse
In praise of neighbors and those who help. Also peacocks.
My life on ice
The future is now
The future is plastic. The future is now.
My country ‘tis of thee
We hold two passports.
Morning becomes me
When a routine is a ritual
Trail friends
There’s magic in meeting on the trail.
Water, water everywhere
Navigating the space between self-reliance and interconnectedness.
Why can’t I?
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” – Indira Gandhi
Here, there, and everywhere
This may make a believer out of you.
ThanksGiving
May all be fed. May all be healed. May all be loved.
Ode to Flannel
Can one sing the praises of a fabric? One can.
Soup and solace
Duct tape, W-40…and SOUP
These hikes
I go to the woods.
What’s love got to do w/ it?
What’s love got to do with it? Um…EVERYTHING.
That first Friday
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.