Me And The Mountains

I Went North To See Majestic Peaks And Was Not Disappointed

Mount Rainier hovering over the Port of Seattle. This was just after I first saw the mountain on May 14.

When I was about ten years old, I was playing with my cousins in the basement of my aunt’s house on Long Island, as we did whenever my aunt hosted family gatherings. There, she had a library of books. An English teacher, my aunt is a bibliophile and …