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The following conversation is based on several actual events although accounts have been fictionalized and names changed. “He sat on my desk.” “He sat on your desk.” I repeated. “Yes.” “He also apparently visited my desk while I was out yesterday.” “Oh, what do you…what?” “He used my dry eraser markers to write me aContinue reading “He Sat on My Desk: A Women in the Workplace Short Play”

This article originally appeared on the The Trek which you can read here. I talk too much in the morning. Savoring bland instant coffee drunk out of a rubber cup folded out like a child’s paper fan, I chatter. Mist drifts from my cup’s sugarless contents, brown water, warm and bitter. And I pour overContinue reading “Yoga Sisters: We Move Therefore We Are”

This article originally appeared on the The Trek which you can read here. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, NOBOs make their way safely through the backwoods of Georgia and arrive at the beginning of their Appalachian Trail trek, whether at Amicalola Falls or Springer Mountain. Conversely, south-bounders cross into the southern region ofContinue reading “Appalachian Spectres & Superstitions (Campfire Optional)”

This article originally appeared on the The Trek which you can read here. According to many a hiker (plus the fly-fisherman we met at the bottom of Amicalola Falls), the rocks and roots of Georgia present some of the most challenging miles on the Appalachian Trail. NOBO thru-hikers step onto the red clay of GeorgiaContinue reading “5 Blue Blazes in Georgia”