A place you thought would fix you — and what happened when it didn’t. This week: the answer I dodged last week. The inn at nine thousand feet, the years I spent confusing movement with progress, a guest who remembered me before I’d decided which me I was — and the whole argument in food form: the house scone recipe, altitude included.

Written and read by the fire at Galena House, Frisco, Colorado.

♫ The Galena House playlist — the episodes, among the songs they sit with: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55wkYr82P02Tsr4zgKZubw

A note from the house: Galena House Audio is the independent creative work of Avery Lane Maxwell. Stories and reflections are presented from the host’s personal perspective and recollection. References to real places, workplaces, or events do not represent statements on behalf of those organizations or their owners, employees, or guests. Certain identifying details may be changed or omitted to protect privacy. Nothing shared on the podcast should be understood as professional, medical, legal, or recovery advice.

Before this room, there were twenty-three others. Episode one: a decade in motion, the places we mistake for salvation, and the truth about the name on the books — a name still being become. Plus the whole point of this show: it ends when you start talking to someone who isn't me. This week's question, to ask someone out loud: "What's a place you thought would fix you — and what happened when it didn't?" Write the house what came back: averylanemaxwell.com · The novel: Still, by Design. · The reading room: Epopteia Reader, free on the App Store.

Hello. I am Avery Lane Maxwell. I write books at nine thousand feet, in a small town in Colorado, mostly before the sun is up. This is a podcast about building things by hand — books, apps, mornings, a life — told quietly, to one person at a time. That person is you. New episodes when they are ready, and not before. Come in. It is already warm. The novel: Still, by Design. — out now, everywhere books are. The reading room: the Epopteia Reader, free on the App Store. The house: averylanemaxwell.com · Frisco, Colorado.