10 K A Day

Last updated on: December 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm By Fred Wooden

I rise before dawn, which is not hard when you live as far north as Milwaukee and Crater Lake and Vladivostok, and on the western edge of the eastern time zone. As the sky brightens I am out the door for my daily excursion. My goal is 10 K a day, about 6.2 miles. I walk, rather than run for three reasons. 1) When I jogged I hated it. I did it for health and ground out every step. 2)... Read more

And Now, The Rest of the Story

Last updated on: December 24, 2022 at 7:05 pm By Fred Wooden

So there we were, on a warm, autumn evening just before the sun set – my five year old self with my three year old brother, my baby sister and my parents – approaching the main road after about a mile of walking on a dirt road. This was not the plan when we set out on our Sunday drive. We were supposed to be seeing an old historic site on dad’s map, but a missing bridge where the map... Read more

Does This Post Make My Soul Look Big?

Last updated on: December 24, 2022 at 7:10 pm By Fred Wooden

On an early autumn day, when I was about five years old, that’s when I became a wanderer. That was over sixty years ago, now. What happened that day was not a revelation or even a beginning, but the beginning of the beginning; which could have turned out very differently at any number of times along the path of my life. But in retrospect, that was the day. Welcome to “Pilgrim Life,” an account of my wandering through life, something... Read more