{"id":10848,"date":"2013-07-16T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T00:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?page_id=10848"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:41:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:41:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BouckFamilyFB-451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11056 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BouckFamilyFB-451.jpg\" alt=\"BouckFamilyFB-45(1)\" width=\"193\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BouckFamilyFB-451.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/BouckFamilyFB-451-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a>Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet more than <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20021128093608\/http:\/\/enivri.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> ten years ago<\/a>, first anonymously as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pilgrimgirl.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pilgrimgirl<\/a>&#8221; and later under my own name. I began as pilgrimgirl because at the time I was studying journey narratives and had a feeling as though I was starting on a new path with an unknown destination. Since I began writing online I&#8217;ve started and finished a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2012\/06\/09\/jana-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhD program<\/a>, left the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/lds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon church<\/a> and became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/quaker\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Quaker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2010\/11\/30\/separation-or-some-big-changes-ahead-for-our-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">got divorced<\/a>, started a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makinghistorypodcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">history podcast<\/a>, found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2010\/03\/31\/yet-another-reason-i-havent-been-blogging-as-much-lately\/\" target=\"_blank\">full-time work<\/a> in academia, took up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2010\/08\/31\/one-step-at-a-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">rock climbing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/outrigger\/\" target=\"_blank\">outrigger canoeing<\/a>, and traveled across the globe (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2007\/11\/13\/not-so-long-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/07\/17\/burning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belgium<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2012\/06\/15\/a-beautiful-day-and-a-room-with-a-view\/\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>! Chicago! Montana! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pilgrimgirl\/sets\/72157626039400953\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portland<\/a>! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). For my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2009\/05\/22\/my-big-birthday-wish\/\" target=\"_blank\">38th birthday<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2009\/05\/22\/with-a-leg-to-stand-on\/\" target=\"_blank\">25th anniversary<\/a> of my bone cancer diagnosis, we (meaning me and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2009\/06\/10\/a-facebook-social-media-success-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">you<\/a>)<\/em> bought legs for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2009\/06\/18\/thank-you-from-huang-meihua\/\" target=\"_blank\">a young double-amputee <\/a>from China.<\/p>\n<p>You might have happened upon this blog because you&#8217;ve heard of my work in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/digital-humanities\/\" target=\"_blank\">digital humanities<\/a> or because you are curious about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/disability\/\" target=\"_blank\">living with a disability<\/a> or because you are also in the midst of a faith transition. Click on any of the links above to find my posts about those particular topics (or use the dropdown links in the nav bar on the blog header). Or, feel free to read a little bit of anything and everything by using the archive links on the right sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is eclectic and random&#8211;it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrim steps\/category\/poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\">has poetry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/food\/\" target=\"_blank\">cooking<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2010\/03\/12\/our-library-in-the-new-yorker\/\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2006\/11\/16\/because-looking-at-pictures-of-other-peoples-cats-is-never-very-interesting\/\" target=\"_blank\">cats<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/category\/garden\/\" target=\"_blank\">flowers<\/a>. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/03\/27\/catharsis-through-ritual\/\" target=\"_blank\">ocean (my ocean)<\/a>. But in that sense it&#8217;s a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet more than ten years ago, first anonymously as &#8220;pilgrimgirl&#8221; and later under my own name. 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