Footprints and Musings

When I registered to participate in a 3-Day, 60-mile walk, my motivation was almost exclusively the physical challenge. I absolutely pulled up recent Susan G. Komen Form 990s and established that this was an organization with great fiscal hygiene and that I could feel good about inviting friends to support before sharing my fundraising link. But I would 100% have participated even if the purpose was to raise funds to provide champagne and caviar to trust fund babies whose fam

A picture is worth a thousand words, While my skill with a pen (keyboard?) far exceeds my skill with a camera, I know these pictures will preserve precious memories for me. Day 1: My black lanyard marked me as a first year walker - notifying all of the more experienced walkers to check in with me frequently and make sure that all was well. The people on the bus! Look at all those Day 1, 5:30 am smiles! Look at MY 5:30 am smile! Locals wrote messages on the sand for walkers at

It is genuinely impossible to do justice to the 3-Day Walk for the Cure in a single Blog Post - or even a series. It is an experience of moments; vignettes that defy any attempt to weave them into a single storyline. I could turn many of those moments into individual posts - or pick innumerable individual story lines to explore. But doing so would create topic fatigue for anyone who hasn’t shared the experience. It is tantamount to telling a friend “you had to be there” as th