SCRAPED KNEES AND MAC N' CHEESE: One Woman's Journey of a Thousand Miles on the Vermont Long Trail
Once in a while you happen upon a place where out of the blue you feel a peculiar sense of belonging.  The 270-mile Long Trail over the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont became one of these places in my life. To date I have put over a thousand miles on this diverse and rugged trail.Spanning from Massachusetts to Canada, I wrote each chapter from the point of view of when that particular hike was taken. As the chapters unfold, so do my relationships with my son and with the sisters.  Each chapter picks up the journey on the trail from one day's hiking to the next, but they are written as they occurred at different times over the years and with a differing cast of companions.  As the miles of trail accumulated, I changed, and they changed and our relationships changed and this in turn affected the way I related to the trail and thus opened me up to learn even more from it.  This point is not belabored, but is a subtle thread running throughout.   Each chapter is therefore not only a description of that segment of the Long Trail, but is also a snapshot in time of my fruition as a hiker and a person.  Throughout the narrative of this incredible "footpath in the wilderness," the reader can chuckle at my naive beginnings and possibly appreciate not so much how much wisdom I gained by the end, but how hard earned whatever I gained was.