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Resources for Historic Hikes in Western North Carolina

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:54:30 +0000

Hi there! If you’ve landed on this page, it probably means you purchased my book, Historic Hikes in Western North Carolina. If you haven’t, I’d be honored if you did. Here is the link to printable maps and elevation profiles for each of the book’s routes. The numbered folders correspond to the book’s chapter numbers....

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Palmetto Trail: High Hills of Santee and Lake Marion Passages

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:21:08 +0000

I wake up at the leading edge of civil twilight, just before 7 a.m. Even though the solstice has passed, the days are still short, and I need to cover at least 20 miles to get to a legal primitive campsite on the Lake Marion Passage. So I consume my delicious breakfast of Skurka Coconut...

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Great Buys in REI and REI Outlet during Cyber Week (12/1/18)

Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:58:49 +0000

The REI Cyber Week Sale is one of the best sales going this year, but it ends tonight (12/2/18) so don’t wait if you’ve had your eye on something! Here are my top picks from both REI and REI-Outlet where you can use your member coupon to score an additional 25%! Helinox Zero Chair Weighing...

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1500K for Shining Rock

Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:30:00 +0000

Three years ago, I was approached by another mom at Wogene’s preschool who asked if I had ever considered the possibility of starting a charter school. Admittedly, I had not, but her idea intrigued me as we continued to talk over the upcoming weeks. A grassroots effort stemmed from that discussion and others similar to it, and...

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Gratitude

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:08:00 +0000

Four years ago today, Mama crossed over. The grief I usually experience on this anniversary is overshadowed today. I am instead overcome with gratitude for the years I spent with her. The fact that I have any memories at all is enough. Today, Waynesville laid to rest one of its own mothers. She wasn’t given...

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All That We Let In

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 02:04:00 +0000

I can find the perfect Indigo Girls song to go with just about any emotion or phase of my life. Today, while driving home from a trip to Atlanta to see all four of my siblings, Emily Saliers crooned, “We’ve lost friends and loved ones much too young. With so much promise and work left undone. ...

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Memory

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:21:00 +0000

Our friends who live next door to us host an unofficial “turkey trot” around the lake where we live each year. The run is in memory of Jay’s father who loved participating in these kinds of events each Thanksgiving. I never knew his father but I love this touching tribute, knowing that through this communal event, he keeps him...

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Boo!!

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:40:00 +0000

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Blessings

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:59:00 +0000

Today was the first time I set foot in a church service since my mother’s funeral. Oddly, after “leaving” church is when I started believing there just might be something to this thing called God. Without the semantics of religion mucking up my thoughts, I am a much stronger believer. I don’t think it was an accident that...

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Look out Preschool–here he comes!

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:18:00 +0000

First Day of Preschool He rocked it!

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