Author: janaseitz1
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Chapter 3: Road Trip!
Moms need to play too – to keep our sense of wonder alive for our children. More than just exercise, it’s exploration, possibility and self-reliance we crave. It’s not the task of childrearing that can grind you down, but the repetition and the pace at which it happens. Technology has ratcheted things up to such a constant…
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Lessons From The Trail
I spent October and November hiking on the Appalachian Trail, ‘on’ being the pivotal word in this sentence. I have not nor have I ever intended to hike the whole 2190 miles from Maine to Georgia. I am a day hiker. There is no part of me which aspires to be a Through Hiker, although…
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Chapter 2: Taking Some Action
I began to ferret out adventure on the mean streets of Rye, exploring on foot the sights I’d seen only as blurs from my ever-moving SUV. I started walking everywhere. And I discovered so much more. I’d rushed past an old fallen log on the edge of a salt marsh hundreds of times, thinking how…
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Chapter 1: Welcome to The Burbs
I am no great adventurer. I’m just a girl from Louisiana who followed a dream to New York City as have many country bumpkins before me. Everything was new and fascinating there, and I explored the city from stem to stern, getting into all sorts of trouble along the way. I blinked away my twenties in…
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Be The Bug
I’ve got three words to sum up the art of fly fishing: “Be the bug.” I gave it a go this fall and the first thing I learned was to abandon everything I know about a rod and reel. A fly rod is totally different. Hold it with your right hand instead of your left.…
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The Outdoor Life
Hailing the healing qualities of nature has become quite de rigueur these epidemic days. As lockdown loomed people flocked to the only places left open, the Great Outdoors, instinctively gravitating toward that which takes the edge off, calms and strengthens, lends perspective to plight. They came in droves, people who had never taken an interest…
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The Great Swamp
A swamp without alligators or water moccasins is a real treat for a displaced swamp rat like myself. When mosquitos are the biggest threat to your adventure, you can relax and enjoy the paddle. “Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better,” said Albert Einstein. To see things from the point of view…
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Westchester: A River Runs Through It
One of the prettiest little rivers in the county, the Croton, packs a surprising whallop: it supplies 10 percent of New York City’s 1 billion gallon a day usage. Like the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg, “Though she be but little, she is fierce!” First dammed in 1842, the Croton was tapped again and again as…
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Rock On
Does anyone even remember what FUN looks like? Good clean American fun with Old Glory flapping in the breeze, waves rippling in the sun and LIVE music? Memorial Day came and went unheralded. We were still too dazed to be anything but thankful to still be standing. July Fourth found us grateful to be allowed…
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Crossing The Divide
During the recent trials of our great nation, I hit the road to think about it all, driving south through the cradle of the Civil War to the Eastern Continental Divide in North Carolina. The landscape changed with every new state, as did the radio news: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia,…