"Exit" in Print!

The Winter/Spring 2013 edition of Adventum is now available in print or as a MagCloud download!

I couldn't have found a more perfect home for my essay, "Exit." The outdoor adventure-themed literary magazine is filled with beautiful photography and gripping accounts of men and women pushing their limits in the wilderness.

In addition to "Exit" (and stunning photos of the great outdoors), the other essays featured are:

From the Seat of a Bicycle, Nadine York
The Sponge Divers of Kalymnos, by Willard Manus
Pilgrimage, by Yelizaveta Renfro
Lost, by Mac Greene
Powder, Guns, and Yoga, by Sophie Nicholson
Open Water, by Carloyn Gray
Fire and Ice, by Duncan McCallum
My Father Teaches Me to Fish, by Sarah Morris
Barefoot, Rim to Rim, by Thea Gavin

My motivation for writing "Exit" was to share with others how my experience at a First Descents camp helped me cope with the fears that come with cancer, and how to get busy living again. On the last day of camp, when my kayak capsized at the base of a waterfall, I was more terrified than I'd ever been in my life, and that's saying a lot! As I reflected on those moments, once warm and dry again, I thought about how interesting it would be to slow down those 60 seconds, to make a reader really feel like she'd been there with me, in that kayak and a year earlier in the hospital. The result became my essay, now available at Adventum Magazine: Current Issue.

Nantahala Falls
The subject of my essay and site where I capsized in my kayak.