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.
I heart books
These pages tell our life stories.
What is an “influencer”?
Let’s reclaim this word.
Me and my analyst
Welcome to the future.
Think deep-ly
Overthink. Underthink. THINK.
Why? Let me tell you
Why? Why? Why?
It’s official Be happy
Happiness is a surprise. And you can’’t find it under the tree.
Once again, with feeling
A tradition. A moment.
Doors open shut
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. —Jim Morrison
Words we feel
The soft sounds that soothe
Round trip
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time. —David Bowie
The good stuff
The randomness of joy
Wi(n)dow
Looking through the wi(n)dow, the view is clear.
The donativo spirit
To give without expectation of receiving
Once upon a car
An auto-biography. Forgive me.
University of the Camino
Ready or not: The lessons to be learned
A river runs through it
To remember with joy not sadness. How extraordinary.
Walking wounded/ walking healed
When you can lift another's burden, do it.
Along “The Way”
It's not the destination. It's not the journey. It's the people.
The hard things
Walk a mile--or 325--in my shoes!
To write is human; to edit is divine*
Let the wild rumpus begin.