October 2023: Recent re-relocation to Laramie, WY for a library job. Life has become about the mini-adventures with the almost famous husky mix, Ivory. I prefer winter.
February 2020: I’m here to share my adventures with anyone who cares to visit. Trying to find my community of either middle-aged women, mountain dwellers, remote workers, snowsports enthusiasts, or like-minded adventurers.
In mid-March of 2020, as a shelter-in-place order loomed, SheSpoke and one of her longtime recreation partners and good friend low-tailed it out of Denver to her small condo in rural, southern Colorado. They bought internet and wool clothes and hunkered down with daily hikes while hopefully clinging to their day jobs as educators. That experience would eventually nudge SheSpoke to leave the city for good, embrace the remote work lifestyle, and huff it out in the mountains.
SheSpoke is a life-long sports enthusiast. As a child, she moved from the sandbox to the playground to the track to the field to the field hockey field to the volleyball court. At twenty-two she (re)discovered the mountains and began hiking, cross-country skiing, mountain biking, and snowboarding. Then she learned how to surf and salsa dance, badly. Next came road and urban assault cycling. Maybe she owns one too many bikes. Her 40s were a series of injuries and other setbacks; she’s ready for cautious fun in her 50s. Hopefully she’s exiting her expensive shopaholic phase.
Sports have afforded SheSpoke the tangible success that life does not always provide. The solitude, scenery, and sun gave her plenty of time for reflection, strategizing, stargazing.
In 2011 SheSpoke returned full-time to the classroom to teach unwitting high-schoolers Beowulf and persuasive writing. After two decades in education, she jumped into library and information science after earning her master’s degree in December 2021. Before that she freelanced as an educator and writer and loved every exhausting day.
Her blog post on road biking Colorado National Monument was Freshly Pressed by WordPress on September 27, 2011.
Her article on the 2011 Leadville 100 mountain biking race was featured on Venture There, USA Today’s adventure arm of their travel section. So was her article on the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame in Crested Butte. She wasn’t afraid of fluff pieces or battle of the sexes stuff.
Back in the aughts she wrote for a host of different outlets. One of her favorite gigs was writing a weekly women’s history column. Here’s one of her favorites on female pirates and one on women’s history month.
You can email her at shespoke@gmail.com.
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