A VOICE ON THE ROAD

Hints on how to live are everywhere. This past weekend, for instance, I found strands of insight weaving themselves through the trees and...

Walking About Writing One of the little things I most look forward to these days is walking around Green Lake with my friend Sharon,...

We walked by my favorite Grand Central Bakery here in the Eastlake neighborhood six, maybe seven times today. Round and round a...

I’m not sure what I expected. But I guess I did expect something, I don’t know, More Dramatic. Golden trumpets maybe. The skies parting...

I spend most of my walking time looking down, either at my feet or a few steps in front of them. Rarely do I look up and out any further...

FOR SOUNDTRACK TO THIS POST, CLICK: RAIN WIND Sometimes you really need to do that thing you balk at, that thing you convince yourself...

Cheryl's crude interpretation of "Waiting or the Interuban" Back on The Road I am not sure why it’s taken me almost a year of...

There’s at least one good thing about a year that brings you to your knees. When the challenges that pushed you to the ground are...

Dear Self, Remember when your little band poured tired and overwhelmed into the taxi at Glasgow airport the day before the start of our...

What was it I said at the beginning of this walk with these five courageous writing women? The end is just a new starting point for...

Cozy and settled in at Allt-na-Leven bed and breakfast in Kinlochleven, we gathered in a circle the evening before reaching Fort William,...

A place name speaks a thousand words. So let’s start this post with that name: The Devil’s Staircase. Two of our writers finished their...

The thing about Scotland in October is RAIN. Because RAIN. All RAIN. More RAIN. So I found myself wondering about the metaphor I, we, are...

Today the prompt for writing came from The Best Game Ever. Yes, that is actually the title of the game: The Best Game Ever. At least in...

We walked as a merry little band for half the distance between Inverarnan and Tyndrum. I love the names of the villages here. Tyndrum....

Given the challenge of last night, several in our group smartly decided to take the daily “out” and travel by ferry from Rowardennan to...

Perhaps part of the reason for the difficult hours wandering from Balmaha to Rowardennan was the 2-hour diversion our merry band took at...

Tears flowed this evening. Several of the writers on this walk have been closely following Charlie Loram's guide to the West Highland Way...

We have two official writing prompts each day on this walking writers retreat -- the word given at the beginning of each day and the...

The walk from Dryman to Balmaha was shorter -- 9 miles compared to yesterday's 12. Still, that’s a right punchy stroll in the Scottish...