Audrey Watters

It's almost the end of Monday, and typically I try to get all my writing done in the mornings. Once it gets to be afternoon, I find it hard to write. (The challenge here is that I find the same to be true for running: so I try to front-load...

While many Americans make big plans for Memorial Day Weekend, our travel plans start this upcoming Friday — we're heading to Oregon to again recreate some of the hikes that Kin and Isaiah did during their "Drone Recovery" summer. We're in "waiting mode," I guess, with anticipation for this trek...

One of the things I'm struggling with right now is my need for control. I've found having a schedule for the day and a list of tasks I need to accomplish has helped me get through the past through years — the ways in which my life has veered out...

We’re in Clearlake Oaks for a few more hours. Check-out time in RV parks is typically the same as hotels: around 11 am. It’s not a terribly long drive back to Fairfield, where we store the trailer. And fingers crossed, when I update the blog next week, I’ll be able...

Yesterday I ran my second-ever half marathon and performed better than I could have ever imagined: 1:50:48 was the official time, which is 4 minutes faster than the race I ran 6 weeks ago. I'm pretty tired today, no surprise, and my legs are a little sore. But I am...

I always think of my friend Tim when I cite the line from Deadwood: "Everything changes; don't be afraid." And here I am again, looking ahead to what is, quite likely, a new start. Again. I won't go into much detail now; it's too soon to say what's going to...

Mondays are my "rest days," and although I am loving this training block and feeling exceptionally strong as I head into its final weeks (I ran 10 miles on Saturday, no problem-o), I am also very very happy when Mondays roll around and I don't have to run or lift...

Kin and I took another RV trip this past weekend. We have managed to take the trailer our every month we've owned it — with the exception of January, when it rained so hard and flooded so badly that the RV park we'd reserved called and told us "We aren't...

I had some successes in the kitchen this past week: I added a frozen banana to the milk-mixture for bread pudding, and it was phenomenal. I had some disasters: I made a couple of loaves of sesame and sunflower seed sourdough — a recipe I've made before — and I...

I can't believe it's already April. And as such, it means the Worst Time of the Year is fast approaching — three years since I last saw Isaiah; three years since he died. I got a tattoo last week, and at first I was pleased that, for once it seems,...