Letter To My Benefactor

Dear Benefactor, I was looking over one of my old letters to you and I wish that I could report that we got to go hiking once again in Hawaii for our wedding anniversary this year, but alas, because of the major remodel we did on our house—which, incidentally, fulfilled one of the items on […]

Dear Benefactor, I know this picture looks like it’s Photoshopped, but it is not. We were up above the trees and in the clouds. It was freezing. It was only May, after all. But I was determined to hike to the top of this high mountain and have a good time. I’d had enough of […]

Dear Benefactor, Par for the course, first I don’t write you for several months, and then I send you two letters smack dab in a row. About a month after our trip to Depot Bay that I told you about, I went with Adriana and two of her friends I had just met to Leavenworth. […]

Dear Benefactor, I’ve been so inept at keeping you up to date about where I’ve been hiking and how often. It’s not because I’ve been sitting around watching Netflix all day and leaving my Keens in the closet. Oh no, I’ve been a busy little bee. Ever since our daughter, Adriana, came home from Australia […]

Dear Benefactor, I haven’t written to you for over a month. I hope you’re still speaking to me after my yucky news. I guess I wouldn’t know because I still haven’t figured out who you are. The physical therapist told me that I need to get hiking poles (for my lymphedema) at my last appointment […]

Dear Benefactor, First I don’t write you for a long time and then I inundate you with three letters in a row. It’s just that I have something on my mind and I’m trying to figure out how to tell you. I’ve dealt with depression over the past ten, twenty… okay, maybe it’s more like […]

Dear Benefactor, Sometimes I go hiking by myself and other times, Ken comes with me. I wasn’t exaggerating in my last post when I said I plod along. Ken, on the other hand, goes up the trail ahead of me, comes back down to where I am, goes a quarter mile back down the trail, […]

Dear Benefactor, The reason I haven’t written for a little while is because I have been hiking and hiking and hiking. I’ve made it to the top (uncharacteristically) so many times this year. Yes, I really took this picture; I promise it is not some photo I ripped from the Internet. I’ve been pushing and […]

Dear Benefactor, My friend Melissa called me the other day and said that she and her son Isaac were on their way over to go ice-skating on the big pond in the farmer’s field next to our house. Ken and I had been running around town all day and I was kind of looking forward […]