It is currently late August. Here in Maine the first spots of colored leaves have begun to dot the green hills and suddenly we need headlamps to take the dogs out after dinner. The mornings are chilly and the humidity has vanished like a fever dream. In four weeks, 2000 miles away, hundreds of runners will be towing the line at the Bear 100 ultramarathon. Eight years ago I had never heard of the Bear 100. I had completed my first, and second, ultramarathons in the Spring of 2018 and, riding...

Seven years after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as the high-profile Epstein Files case is proving once again that our system is designed to protect perpetrators, I’m called to tell my story. Not because it’s unique, or because my perpetrator is well known, but because I hope that my words can find their way to a young guide, who feels unseen, ashamed and scared, and let them know that they are not alone. This story involves descriptions of sexual...

Somewhere in the peace at the depth of the pain cave, I realized that this was what I had been working for.