Lauren Allen, Storyteller

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Ewok Dance Party (Fiction)

September 28, 2023 by Lauren Allen in Fiction

I should have killed myself at the hospital, when I had the chance.

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September 28, 2023 /Lauren Allen
environmental despair, love, Motherhood, depression, death, Creepy
Fiction

The Best Mentor

July 28, 2022 by Lauren Allen in NYC

I’m looking for photographs of my mentor to put on her memorial website. She was only 55 when she died. She died alone and in pain.

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July 28, 2022 /Lauren Allen
NYC, Outward Bound, Mentor, friendship, Mourning, death
NYC

I’m a Climber Who Can’t Climb

June 03, 2022 by Lauren Allen in Seattle

It’s one thing to be sad teaching climbing when I know that my injury prevents my own climbing. It’s quite another to be terrified that I’m teaching students to do something that might kill them in the end.

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June 03, 2022 /Lauren Allen
Rock Climbing, mountaineering, death, injury, depression
Seattle

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