Author: jmadmin

I stopped writing in anything other than the journal he helped me make, but it’s winter now, the Sunday morning to the Saturday night of Summer, and I guess it’s time I address my absence. Not to an imaginary audience, or even to the friends who aren’t on speaking terms with me anymore, but to […]

Lately I feel like I’m seeing a lot of op-eds and exposés of eating disorders in the climbing community.  It started with Beth Rodden, certified badass and hero to a generation of climbers.  Then we got Cathy Karlo’s podcast episode about them, in which she got a bunch of us to send in little voice […]

I haven’t smoked a cigarette in a week, but I did want one so badly I cried about it on Wednesday.  Here’s what it was like; It was like it’s been this horrible, broken year of reckoning and failure and fear and anger, and I’ve been smoking a lot.  Like, yeah, Covid affects your lungs […]

Something happened last night.  I want to talk about it. First, let me tell you about this debate I lost in high school.  See, I’d dropped out in my freshmen year so I could earn dual credit at the community college and also spend all my time riding horses, but they still let me be […]

The wildfire season this year was out of control.  It was the scariest, most apocalyptic thing I’d ever seen…or not seen.  I mean I could stand at the trailhead leading down into Smith and couldn’t see the rocks for the smoke.  I drove extra slow because I couldn’t see more than a car or two […]