Who Are We and What’s This All About?

Who Are We and What’s This All About?

I am an early 60’ish woman, born and raised in upstate New York, and have lived in Phoenix Arizona for the majority of my adult life. I was married for 23 amazing years to Charly, the light of my life and the most wonderful, sensitive man I have ever known. Ten years ago, Charly died suddenly. I spent the first few years after his death picking through the fog of learning to live on my own, and the next years as a student of how to live it more fully. Interestingly, in the process, I think I became fairly independent. Perhaps fiercely so.

My two rescue dogs, Trax and Sally, are the joy in my life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before I left Phoenix on The Great Escape, I wrote a few thoughts on a dry erase board. Sharing them here, and it will be interesting to see how they change with travel, and how others whose paths cross with mine complete them.

As my dogs and I travel in our little camper van we hope to learn how to work outside of an office, see beautiful places, and meet people unlike ourselves.

You might be thinking, “Oh gosh, in the prior paragraph, she’s referring to herself and the dogs as ‘we’, even when describing human attributes”. Just bear with me, ok?. I sometimes like to write from the perspective of “we”. Maybe it feels less self-absorbed. Or safer. At any rate, start worrying if I refer to myself in the third person a la George Costanza. Until that happens, I look at it this way, “That Eileen, she is doing just fine”.