What do writing and mindfulness have in common? Well – a lot, actually. Both require that we sit still and focus our attention. Both are a process of exploration, a means of coming to know ourselves and the rest of the world a little better. And both have the potential to be simultaneously challenging and […]
Nature can fool us. Or more likely, we fool ourselves. We can think that because the vista is stunning, the bay serene, because an eagle is perched close enough to see or even to capture in our digital hands that we have understood it with a panoramic sweep, or for some, with a box ticked.
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Reading & Conversation: Family Matters featuring Susan Pope and Kate Troll Recorded Thursday, September 26, 2024 Kate Troll is an author, op-ed columnist, wilderness adventurer, and speaker on conservation and climate issues. Her opinion pieces have been published in the Washington Post, the L.A. Times and the Nation. For three years she was a regular
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I once went on a gal-pal horseback-riding weekend inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve. If you know me, you know how exceptional that is. Our fly-in camp destination was Horsfeld, and I, who fear horses and their hooves and muscle mass and their propensity for discharging me from the saddle, went along only because
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George Fischer wrote 19 autobiographies without ever planning to publish them. And he could have. Not only was he a talented writer and an accomplished scholar, but he had witnessed some of the most historic moments of the twentieth century. Eleanor Roosevelt talked about him in her memoirs, which she did publish. But Fischer made
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I’ve been known to give advice to writers—maybe too much of it! But it occurs to me that my best advice falls under the category “Do as I say, not as I do.” Read my top seven suggestions and consider sharing examples from your writing life in the comments below. #1. Start writing your acknowledgements
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“The second I step up onto the tundra bench I realize my mistake. I forgot to shout, ‘Hey bear!’ like I normally do when beaching the raft, to avoid nasty surprises. Right now, this slip of attention could get me killed. Not 20 yards away, a grizzly stands up in the grass, fixing me in
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Summertide blew us away! No, seriously. Gusts of wind and pelting rain whooshed against the southside Anchorage home where folks hung out in a cozy living room talking about writing and reading their work. Longtime members and newbies alike cycled from writing prompt to writing prompt at tables spread throughout the house. For nourishment, they
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“. . . In the years to come I saw the river frozen featureless white, saw it running water over the ice in a January thaw; saw it frozen to glass under a February moon when we skated two or three miles straight line before turning around to let a cold breeze blow us home;
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Victor Hugo used to start his writing day by taking off his clothes and handing them to his valet, who wasn’t supposed to give them back until Hugo had finished his day’s work. That’s how the story goes, anyway. Now, some of that story may not make perfect sense—um, didn’t Victor Hugo have another set
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