http://www.jennfields.com writer & editor Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:06:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Journalists need thick skin. Even if your journalistic goal is to write about eye shadow for Glamour, you'll still be labeled as a member of that enigmatic, anger-inducing "media." That means you'll be subject to an occasional old-fashioned media bashing by complete strangers, and even your friends and family. I was ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/08/26/media-bashing/ A story appeared on the front page of my paper today that I have to share. A woman was riding her bike back from the post office with her baby in a carrier on her back when a man rode up next to her and grabbed her breast. Completely shocked, she ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/07/30/woman-chases-down-attacker-on-bike/ The rock was rotten. Each time I grasped a hold, I wondered if it would pull away when I cranked on it. Ben, Jeremy and I were clustered around the bottom of an exit chute near the top of our snow climb up Skywalker Couloir on Sunday. The chute, a snow-collecting ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/07/09/skywalker-couloir/ I spent the better part of this weekend with women who are tougher than me. Today, I went on my club (Title 9) ride with my friend Kim. I've been riding for a while, but Kim is a new cyclist. We both joined the club this spring, and when we went ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/04/06/tougher-than-me/ I was just reviewing some of the e-mails I've received from people who tracked down information on Dr. Ajari here, and at the risk of perpetuating old gossip, here's one of my favorites: These are some things I’ve heard but I have no idea as to their validity. Dr. Ajari carried the ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/03/25/the-liar/ I was hooking my way up a picked-out and crowded frozen waterfall at Wild Basin on Sunday when the climber next to me yelled: "Ice ice ice ICE!" You yell "ice!" a lot when you're ice climbing. It's usually a fairly casual warning for the folks around you: I am swinging an ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/02/12/big-ice/ long time no haiku. if you don't use it, you lose it -- haiku muscle. http://www.jennfields.com/2008/02/12/muscle-haiku/ One of the reasons I haven't written much here this winter is that I've taken up two new winter sports. I'm from Missouri, a land that sees more ice and freezing rain than snow. We stay inside in the winter. The only sliding around on the white stuff we do is ... http://www.jennfields.com/2008/02/07/norwegian-kool-aid/ From the Dr. Ajari files... A chronology of Dr. Ajari's life has eluded me for some time. No one seems to know exactly when he did anything, just that he did a lot: was detained in Dachau, subsequently went to Japan to study Shugendo and complete a three-year retreat, jumped out ... http://www.jennfields.com/2007/11/14/the-chronology-of-nonexistent-time/ While having dinner with a typically outdoorsy Colorado friend the other night, she mentioned that her co-workers don't climb or ski or cycle on weekends. They bake, she said. And watch the occasional game on TV. And bake. "You know," she said. "They're soft girls." I did know. I used to be ... http://www.jennfields.com/2007/11/01/soft-girls/