Have you ever been camping?

My senior year of high school I did Outward Bound. Instead of gym. We hiked over 20 miles in 3 days & slept outside in tarps. We canoed some crazy rapids & went spelunking in a cave.

It made me really love nature as my solace. One day I led the group for a few hours.

I really liked camping till I began having back problems & sleeping on hard surfaces was no longer fun. I like the grey light early in the morning before the sun rises. I have that as the title of my first book.

I grew up fishing above the Arctic Circle. Hiking from lake to lake finding wild trout. In the rain & bright summer nights.

Do you love being outside?

What makes you nervous?

I have high functioning anxiety so it can be triggered by numerous things. The worst one is flying(no, it’s not take off/landing.) I encountered an air pocket when I flew in the 1990s that caused us to drop several thousand feet in a matter of seconds. Anyway, long story short I hate flying now.

Interviews & impromptu work related questions. Makes me nervous. I’m good at interviews but it still makes me uncertain.

Tunnels make me nervous especially if there’s traffic backed up in the tunnel. There was a Norwegian movie that was an action movie about a tunnel, nope I didn’t see it.

Crowds, either on transit or at an event. Doesn’t sit well with me. Maybe it’s since COVID that I’ve become more accurately aware of them in transit. Not a fan.

What makes you nervous?