Heather Thomas
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1,616 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Heather Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My mom, who is a nurse, very much views herself as my perfectly nurturing life giver.
I know she is hoping that one of these days I'll break down and compare her to a nurse log.
I give my own usual reaction, which is to roll my eyes.
I'd be more likely to offer a different botanical comparison.
She's more like a stringler fig vine.
Or maybe a kudzu.
As far as the nurse log, there's a lesson I take from that, too.
Get a jump on the competition by pillaging the bones of the dead.
After the nurse log, we kept heading generally uphill, looking for a campground called Drake Plateau that was supposed to be a few miles in.
I thought we'd come across more intact signs.
But eventually we realized that we didn't know where we were going, and we should probably go back to the car and try to find a trail map.
Then we realized we didn't know how to get back to the car either.
The trail that we thought we were taking back down petered out altogether.
I didn't start to get really worried until we pulled out our compasses.
They didn't agree, and the direction needle spun lazily around in a slow circle while I was standing still.
This mountain didn't like us any better than the passing drivers did.
Not sure what else to do, we started walking again, and then we came to a rushing brook, and we were both relieved to see a man sitting on the edge of it.
Relieved at first, anyway.
As we got closer, it became pretty clear that he was way worse off than we were.
He was hunched over, clutching at his stomach like it hurt him.
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