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Gretchen Staebler

Gretchen Staebler

I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer. Check out my website (and my memoir) at www.gretchenstaebler.com.

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Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
She promises one year, living with her stubbornly independent 96-year-old mother, cleaning out the house her parents had stashed musty history in for five decades, and getting her mother moved elsewhere. Four years later, the author is still trying to stay sane in the face of her mother’s increasing dementia, fighting old battles and learning respect and acceptance.
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“Story is the shortest distance to the human heart.”

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Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday

Waiting for the sun with the dark-eyed juncos. Happy day of thanks and gratitude. I’m grateful for your presence here. Continue reading Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday

Just when I thought there would be no sunrise yesterday… 7:42am 7:47am 7:59am 8:14am 8:34am 9:09am Continue reading Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

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Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday

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Adventure Log: Paradise on Labor Day
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Adventure Log: Paradise on Labor Day

This post should start with 😳. It sounds insane for the solitary hiker who doesn’t hike on weekends and doesn’t … Continue reading Adventure Log: Paradise on Labor Day

Flora & Fauna Friday
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Flora & Fauna Friday

Technically neither flora nor fauna, but nature! Each Olympic Peninsula beach is unique. Rialto’s superpower is colored stones. And I … Continue reading Flora & Fauna Friday

Adventure Log: Olympic National Park, Camping with the Littles
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Adventure Log: Olympic National Park, Camping with the Littles

I returned last week to a campground of my childhood, Mora, at Rialto Beach in the Olympic National Park. I … Continue reading Adventure Log: Olympic National Park, Camping with the Littles

Adventure Log: Naches Peak Loop
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Adventure Log: Naches Peak Loop

“There has to be life after death,” I have heard people say in rationalizing an existence of heaven; “because this … Continue reading Adventure Log: Naches Peak Loop

Adventure Log: Van Trump Park & Comet Falls
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Adventure Log: Van Trump Park & Comet Falls

In the past seven years, I have hiked pretty nearly all the iconic trails at the Paradise side of Mt. … Continue reading Adventure Log: Van Trump Park & Comet Falls

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