A VOICE ON THE ROAD

A hidden cairn easily missed without slowing down, paying attention, making the walk itself the destination The walking on the first day...

A poet walks along the Kumano Kodo For those who make this walk, it soon becomes apparent that along the Kumano Kodo, the sacred road and...

The starting path Earlier this year, I headed to Japan with a group of writers to walk and write on the Kumano Kodo , a pilgrimage that...

The last day of any walk is marked by something akin to awe and anticipation of the joy of arriving, of resting, of having done the hard...

Six days in we had two more days of walking—the last day. A fairly short stroll of about 7 miles— before reaching the Island of...

We made it through the toughest day in terms of walking—about 14 miles by the end of the day, climbing up and over the moors, which while...

The fourth day of walking is often the hardest day of a long-distance walk. Suddenly, the body starts to believe you aren't going to...

On our third day of walking—which moved us to mile 30 on the path according to the All Trails map for our walk —I noticed something...

It's always my favorite part of a long walk—and one of my favorite prompts to give to the people who walk with me. Listening to the path,...

I take long, long walks to gift myself the time and space to give my unproductive overthinking a rest and allow the words of my heart to...

On our last official day of walking St. Cuthbert's Way, we felt excited to reach our destination on the isle of Lindisfarne (dubbed Holy...

The walk was a short one, comparatively, back to the 7 miles that started this journey from Scotland to England to the island. We rolled...

Oh, the build-up I gave to the 13-mile walk between Kirk Yethom and Wooler. I had talked it up before the walk, warned of wind, rain, and...

Our next stroll carried us from Morebattle to Kirk Yethom. Don't even try to pronounce that last name if you aren't Scottish. It's...

The walk from Jedburgh to Morebattle (pronounced Moooor bottle by the Scots) took us through the village of Crailinghall, along the Dere...

With a big breakfast under our daypacks, we continued our walk from St. Boswell's to the beautiful town of Jedburgh. Moving through the...

How can a road already traveled look so different a second time? Part of it for me was the season. I last walked St. Cuthbert's Way in...

I was not myself when I arrived this time at the beginning of St. Cuthbert's Way in Melrose. With me was a brand new group of walking...

"If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of...

One of my favorite talks by the Tibetan-Buddhist nun and teacher Pema Chödrön is about staying: "Learning to stay with ourselves is like...