Naked Hiker Devil's Garden, UT
I hurt someone. Someone whom I loved very much. "I am so pissed off at you right now." I did not fully understand when she first arrived...
Naked Bridesmaid Big Bear Lake, Ca
It was not what I was wearing. A burnt orange floor-length bridesmaid dress. It was nothing that I said. We barely spoke. I was not being...
Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains National Park, Co
I've been thinking a lot about how people express their love for each other. Many of my friends who are not American, find it weird how...
Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains Stream, Co
I know a man who is quite possibly the nicest person I have ever met. He couldn't intentionally hurt a person, even if he wanted to. The...
Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains, Co
An open hand slap across the face, the sound could be heard from across the playground. It filled me with protective motherly rage, which...
Reason 27
I talk a lot out gravity because I feel like its the only way to describe the pull that some people and places have. I felt it the night ...
Naked Hiker Kai Iwi Lakes, New Zealand
I couldn't figure out why I was so annoyed at the cloudless sky last night. Then I realized it has been a year since that night. The one...
Reason 26
We started at an ancient movie theater that still played film reels and wreaked of fake butter and sticky soda soaked carpet. We started...
Reason 25
Do you have a favorite book? Mine is 'Oh the Places You Will Go' followed closely by 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and a long list of werewolf...
Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains National Park, CO
"Headed, I fear, toward a most useless of place, the waiting place. For people just waiting. [...] Everyone is just waiting. No! That's...
Naked Hiker Canyons of the Ancients, Co
Tuesdays are for Trivia. Today I needed to leave early. Not because I had something planned, just because I needed to. There was tugging...
Naked Hiker Mesa Verde National Park, CO
I met someone whom I loved; not in the obsessive childish infatuation way but in an honest-to-god-I-want-what-is-best-for-them way. When...
Naked Hiker Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, UT
Recovery is delicate. Delicate the way a single feather can tip a scale or sound can cause an avalanche. The "road to recovery" has never...
Naked Hiker Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Emergency code activated: Name: Kelly Hennessy Location: O'Connell's Pub, Huntington Beach Will disarm upon safe arrival home. Today's...
Naked Hiker Angle's Landing, Zion National Park, Utah
This was the first Naked Hiker photo during my half-cross-country move to Denver for Grad school. I remember feeling elated like I was...