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My name is Ruth Economy, and I’m passionate about exploring meaningful experiences through writing. Above all, I want to foster connection by sharing stories that help us make sense of what it means to be human.
At its core, this space is about your inner compass—learning how to hear it, trust it, and follow it, even when it pulls you somewhere unexpected. It’s about the seasons that reshape you—grief, reinvention, endings, new beginnings—and figuring yourself out in real time.
One month before our Camino trip, my mom and I returned to northern Minnesota for our longest training hike yet: 12 miles along the Mesabi Trail. What started as a test of our physical readiness became something else entirely—a walk through family history, childhood memories, old mining country, sore feet, Diet Coke, and the landscape that had always felt like home.