Random musings on my vagabond existence in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania and wherever else life takes me. Rachael is away with her girlfriends for their annual Fall trip to the beach, and so I’ve spent the past five days by myself at the mountain house with only the two dogs as company. The weather has been lovely. I mowed the lawn and the walking paths. I swept out the garage. I put away some things for the winter. I went fishing. I read books. I listened to Classica

Random musings on my vagabond existence in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania and wherever else life takes me. After nearly two months of grieving following the recent loss of my mother, I can feel the old joy rising within me again like sap in a tree. It helps that Rachael and I have been spending a lot of time at our mountain house in northeastern Pennsylvania. What better place to get happy again than at your happy place? Nature is balm for my soul. It always has been t

Random musings on my vagabond existence in the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania and wherever else life takes me. This morning I took my first walk around my mountain property as an orphan. My 93-year-old mother passed away last Sunday. My father passed away in 2019 at the age of eighty-six. I am now officially parent-less in the world. It was a beautiful spring morning, the sun shining, birds chirping, new growth sprouting everywhere, but I felt none of it. The outer world w