Adventure Unpacked
Jill HomerI write essays about outdoor adventures, mid-life, mental health, the unquenchable thirst for meaning, and learning to love the little joys.
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Longest day of the year
Baby photo. Aurora, Colorado, 1979.
I haven’t been out for a walk in two weeks, not since I lurched and cursed my way through a three-miler in Utah on June 7. The following day, I was officially cleared to get back on my bike and thought,...
Nothing can take that away from me
Last week, I rode a bike for the first time in seven months.
It feels disingenuous to write that, since I’ve leaned heavily on my indoor trainer to cope with this Year Of Injury. I rode through January while I was recovering from frostbit...
You can’t go home again
The air at home is different somehow. Almost rarified, with a lightness that leaves me feeling warm and a little bit woozy. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the tenuous feeling of floating through different versions of myself, every one that’s...
The end of May
I miss Mama Moose and Little One. Like most of our wildlife visitors, they waltzed in for a few days, made themselves completely at home in our garden and driveway, decimated a few of my favorite plants, and then moved on to greener pasture...
We’re thankful for the moisture
Here in the foothills at 7,200 feet above Boulder, Colorado, during a single week in mid-May, we’ve received more precipitation and nearly as much snow as the entire winter of 2025-2026. After a March that was so hot it would have qualified...
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