Walking As a Way of Knowing

Category: Stories

  • Two Years!

    Hello everyone! Today I am celebrating my 2 year anniversary of this blog! Because of this milestone, I wanted to share some of my thoughts about what blogging has meant to me and some of the many changes I have experienced as a result. Two years ago when I made my first post (https://theperpetualvagabond.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/today-2/), I was…

  • A Love Letter to Humanity

    (I wrote this letter last week for a class I’m taking on Love and Conflict Resolution and after writing it, decided I wanted to share it here-since really a love letter to humanity should probably be shared with people!) Dear Humanity, Let me begin by saying that this is a love letter, but before I can tell…

  • The Beginning

    I began this blog in May of 2011 in the wake of what felt like losing my mind. I was about to graduate with a Master’s Degree in a field I no longer wanted to work in, I was working in a job that was supposed to be my dream job, but I hated, and…

  • On Being “Freshly Pressed”

    Last week when I decided to publish my Essay, The Swifts, Conflict, Decision Making and Following My Dreams, it was with trepidation. It was clearly quite personal and I wasn’t entirely sure I was comfortable with hundreds of people I didn’t know reading it. But, in the end I thought that it was valuable to…

  • The Swifts, Conflict, Decision Making, and Following My Dreams

    Last night I went to watch the swifts in Portland, who every September on their fall migration roost in the chimney of Chapman School in NW Portland. Watching the swifts is one of my favorite fall activities in this city, as hundreds of people come out with their families and friends and have picnic dinners…

  • All Packed and Ready to Go!

    I don’t leave for Spain and the Camino de Santiago for another 2 weeks…but my bag is packed and I am ready to go! The good thing about packing so early is that it gives me time to make sure I am not forgetting anything important and not bringing more than I need. The bad…

  • In Search of Adventure Abroad and Community at Home: Thoughts on Being a Vagabond

    I am a vagabond; that much is clear to me. But I am also drawn to building creative and meaningful community at home. This makes me feel torn on a near constant basis and the process of fuzing these two realities together seems to be more alchemy than a hard science. At least I have…

  • Tour de Ireland and France, 2006

    In the Summer of 2006, my travel partner Daniel and I spent 40 days cycling through Ireland and France. Neither of us had any significant experience traveling by bike and we undertook this journey on used mountain bikes we bought in Ireland (not nescesarily recommended but doable!). Anytime “real” cyclists would see us and our bikes they would exclaim,…

  • To Whom it May Concern,

    (The following is an open letter to publications or people I would like to work for. I have not yet sent it anywhere, but I hope to in the near future as I figure out the best way to approach following my dream of working in this field. As this is already an unconventional approach,…

  • Off to Korea! (And My Quest to Find a New Dream)

    As the title of my blog suggests, I am bit of a traveler. But, this trip feels different. I’ve been fairly stationary over the past few years as I have been focusing on activism, sustainability and building community. I have been learning to garden, looking for jobs in the non-profit sector and hoping to build…