Lambent Dark

For the eight months he had known her he had never noticed her wearing makeup. Except for that one time she dressed as Veruca Salt. Not that her lack of face paint surprised him, given that all the time they spent together was in the outdoors wading through streams, clambering over fallen giants, busying their …

Steingletscher

Cycle, train, train, cycle, bus, cycle, walk. Three hours and twelve minutes later, I stand on the bank of the lake and look up. Had I been in this very same spot eighty years ago, there would have been no lake at my feet and I would have been dwarfed by the massive ice wall …

Leg Power

As the first hints of morning's glow begin to grace the horizon, the silhouette of mountains captured the delicate balance between the enshrouded night and the promise of a new day. This fleeting masterpiece of nature was the signal I had been waiting for. I kissed my sleeping son and daughter and bade them farewell. …