Category: Personal Essays
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This tree has lived through it all… and so can you!
It seems fitting, or perhaps – necessary – to share some of my favorites from our road trip as a wrap-up to my “Camping across the country” series. But I also want to share this as a reprieve from this awful, awful election season. While I’m not going to write about the election (at least, not right…
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Tripping into Reality
As we crossed that imaginary line between N. Dakota and Minnesota, everything changed. The golden (aka brown) fields that stretched on forever were replaced with intense greenery and water everywhere. Though not the pretty, blue lakes I was expecting and hoping to see in this “land of 10,000 lakes.” Instead, I was confronted with algae…
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2 Fists Up, Civil Rights Movement 2.0
*Regularly scheduled posting on this blog (i.e. posts about my 30-day road trip) has been delayed in order to bring you this important update from my life in NYC* I don’t want to say this wrong. It seems so important. Not that it’s important that I talk about it. But that we all talk about it.…
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The wrong things
We seem to always worry about the wrong things… My mom worried about me hiking alone because I might get eaten by a bear. A woman in Yellowstone didn’t go on one of the hikes because she didn’t have bear spray. Yet, only 1 person per year is attacked by a bear in the park.…
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Finding space: moving on
If we weren’t moving to NYC and if we weren’t going on a month-long road trip across the country, I would be returning to work as a teacher today. I have mixed feelings. I picture my desk, in MY classroom, with a new teacher sitting there trying to figure out the best way to teach…
Trynia Kaufman 