Over the winter, I spent some time driving to an undisclosed location in the desert with two anarchist medics I’d not met before. The person driving asked me and the other passenger, “What are you reading right now?” You can count on anarchists to never open a conversation with a question about your job. And […]
Haunted By Futility or Saving the World: Writing Climate Crisis by Erica Watson Read More »
You know the old saying: federal decision-makers who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat the same mistakes in rural Alaska. (Wait, maybe that’s not quite it.) In our latest installment of Active Voice: Writers Respond, essayist Erica Watson does not hold back as she examines the actions of the current federal administration to move
Active Voice | Bursts & Craters, Past & Present by Erica Watson Read More »
I’m writing this on Easter Sunday, melting snow dripping off the roof as more falls. It surprises me how much snow still remains on a relatively small roof after several days of 40 degree sun, but there it is, drip-drip-dripping. What’s sifting down now might turn to rain. It might not. I’m in the self-pitying
Guest Blogger Erica Watson on Gratitude and Lineage Read More »
I’ve enjoyed this opportunity to blog again (and you’re not done with me yet, since March has a fifth Wednesday and I have a minor injury that will keep me sedentary for a little while, so I agreed to take it on). Thank you to 49 Writers for the change to get into blogging again,
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: Why I’m Not Ashamed to Love the Internet Read More »
I promise not to say his name, but I trust you all know who I mean when I say that a certain public figure—well, maybe more than one—has forced (some) Americans to examine our individual and cultural relationships with the truth. This person’s relationship with “the truth” has been described as “loose,” as similar to
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: Some Thoughts on “Truth” Read More »
My Spanish has been, functionally speaking, stagnant but functional for about ten years, since I spent six months in Argentina, followed by most of a decade in the linguistic wasteland of the Denali Borough. My occasional visits to Spanish-speaking countries/regions remind me how little I know, but also hint at the fluidity of self and
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: The Worlds of Words and Things Read More »
One of my favorite lines on craft comes from Rebecca Solnit: “Any subject is a good enough starting point to travel any distance, toward any destination.” Actually, she was speaking about Thoreau’s practice of giving his politics and his leisure time equal narrative weight, of balancing berry picking with jail time, but the metaphor lends
Guest Blogger Erica Watson: Travel, Memory, and Craft Notes: for Eva Read More »
Moderator and panelists for Home/Land: Peggy Shumaker, Scott Russell Sanders, Debby Dahl Edwardson, Eowyn Ivey, Richard Chiappone Yes, Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference is over. For four intense pre-solstice days, 150 writers soaked up the wisdom of faculty, made new writing friends and caught up with old, enjoyed a variety of readings from aspiring and established
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