camping – Passenger Conners

Off the Grid: Camping the Rio Grande Gorge

Posted on July 2, 2013February 9, 2014 by Valerie Conners

I stared at myself in the hazy, scratched mirror of the campground bathroom. A Chernobyl-sized beetle scampered past my foot. I didn’t flinch. It appeared I wasn’t quite myself. Was it the aftermath of the Black Death-like virus I’d survived the week prior? No, that wasn’t it. Was it the darn altitude fuzzing my brain…

Introducing, My “Little Sparrow”

Posted on April 3, 2011February 9, 2014 by Valerie Conners

I wasn’t like a lot of other 16 years olds back in my day. I mean, in some ways I fit the bill of a kid in the ’90s: shopping at the Gap, wearing lots of flannel, doing my hair up in scrunchies. But then, while other kids were getting high and heading to see…