Colorado-based freelance journalist
It’s the morning of my first bike race. I go through my typical morning routine – routine will you free, they say. I’m careful not to eat anything I wouldn’t typically eat so I have the breakfast that’s been my usual the last couple weeks. Two pieces of toast with jam, two eggs sunny side […]
More“The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.” -John Steinbeck When it comes to my latest adventures, nothing has gone as planned. A few weeks ago, a ski trip to A-Basin that Kelsey and I had been planning for weeks got derailed when Kelsey slept through her alarm and I ended […]
MoreIt was mid-day Thursday, March 28, and we were up somewhere above 13,000 feet on Quandary Peak, a 14,250-foot peak in Colorado’s Ten-Mile Range. After having gotten lost for 2 hours in the dark (the hike was meant to be a full-moon hike), running out of water, getting into an argument, and being up there […]
MoreToday I thought about the road trip I took in New Zealand after the ski season was done. I had bought this 1992 Subaru Outback there for $1200 that we called Martha, and me and my now-boyfriend, and 2 of our good guy friends took a 3.5-week long road trip through the South Island in […]
More…Ironman long, Dean Karnazes long, Race Across America long; going lengths on your own power that are further than most people care to drive – is a big middle finger to the rat race – proof that we’re not all robots on auto-drive, taking the easiest way through life.
MoreTo me, there’s no better proof for reincarnation than the phenomenon of chemistry between two individuals who had been strangers. When chemistry happens – whether it’s between you and the opposite sex or the same – it can’t be explained by your background or shared experiences. There’s just something there – a magnetic pull that […]
MoreI wrote this late night email to someone very special to me, in response to a moving story he shared with me about his father, who passed more than ten years ago. D., Life is profound and crazy. You understand that so much better than I do, but even the limited extent to which I’ve experienced change, […]
MoreSeveral months ago, a good friend from New Zealand came to visit me, passing through Colorado on her way up to do another ski season in Canada. It was a dark, and angry time for me – in stark contrast to her traveler’s free spirit and optimism. I wrote this about our reunion at the […]
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Gloria Liu 