Follow My Journey
The Camino de Santiago is a 500-mile pilgrimage route across Spain. Follow along as I blog about my journey – both as I prepare (until April 2019) and walk (April – May, 2019)
“Cemetery blues”
Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return --words spoken on Ash Wednesday as a cross is traced on each penitent's forehead with ashes How to celebrate Shrove Tuesday ("Fat Tuesday," Mardi Gras)? How to live it up before the season of...
Gems in the (urban) jungle
The original title of this post, in draft mode, was "Training: use of technology and time management." I know, right? Boring! But the truth of the matter is, I haven't practiced creating a post using the technology I'll have with me in Spain...
The “s” words: silence, solitude… and, oh yes, “sh*t!”
There is probably no post that has been on my "must write this" list for longer than the one you are now reading. Even more: weeks before it made it to my actual list back in October, it was meandering around my mind. Had it actually been...
Hiking the urban jungle
The Indiana woods in winter strike me as neither dark nor deep, but yes, they are undeniably lovely. They welcome and allure. They invite going just a bit further, one more climb up to a ridge to catch another vista, one more descent into a...
Coincidence or clairvoyance? You decide….
If you've heard all the stories about academia that you care to hear in a lifetime and they strike you as highfalutin, injected with too much self-aggrandizement, then maybe this isn't the story for you. And if your feet are so firmly planted on the ground that any...
Katy Ratcliff
That’s me in the photo. (You probably guessed that.) Midwesterner through and through. I was born and raised in…. Well, if you care about all that, check out my (in)complete bio here. For now, know that I am spending many hours on wooded trails of several counties adjacent to my home in Bloomington, Indiana as I prepare to head off, on foot, on a 500-mile, centuries-old pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain come spring of 2019. “Come with me” as I reflect on my training and then on my experiences as a peregrina (pilgrim).
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