Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

A Farewell to Writing and Walking to Sanity in 2024

Dec 25, 2024

Dear Readers,

My last post for 2024 isn’t a story. If you follow my Substack, you know I publish short stories or serialized longer pieces. So far I haven’t tackled a serialized novel, but I’m considering that. Thanks for stopping in over the holiday season and I look forward to sharing time with you in the coming year.

Like so many people during the 2020-2021 Covid Shutdown, I found new ways to spend my time. For those two years, I walked hundreds of miles and kept a record of that mileage on my Facebook page. I’d set a destination—always starting from my hometown—and then set a deadline to reach that destination virtually. I made it to Yosemite, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Los Angeles, wore out two pairs of shoes, and turned my thighs into steel—well, almost.

In 2022 through this year, I started calling my challenge Writing and Walking to Sanity. I stopped setting destinations, but I wore out two more pairs of shoes. I thought I’d retire from this Covid activity once we came out of isolation, but I was so used to doing 3-4 miles daily that I couldn’t. As the year comes to a close, I’m not as regular as I was in those other years, but I can now practice yoga and take barre classes again. Having the variety is wonderful and makes my goal of sanity even more achievable.