Once again these are the books that stood out for me among those I read this past year. They were not necessarily published in 2011; many of them appeared decades ago, in fact. Fiction Native, by William Haywood Henderson. Henderson’s gorgeous, delicate, but also ripping first novel explores some themes similar to those in [...]
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Standout Reads of 2011
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Poetry, Reading, Writing, tagged book choices 2011, great reads, recommended reading on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Broken
Posted in Books, Boulder Fire, Literary Inspiration, Outdoor activities, Wildfire, Writing, tagged creativity, numinous, prayer, spirituality, survival, woo-woo on April 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Walking nurtures an open mind… The sky is like an upturned plate—a big platter of openness filled with thoughts.” –Liz Caile, A Life at Treeline In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales writes that people who are lost in the wilderness and survive often have in common that they prayed. Those who are found but only [...]
Standout Reads of 2010
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, tagged book choices 2010, great reads, recommended reading on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not necessarily written this year, just the ones that popped for me of those I read. Fiction: Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada (a German couple find a way to resist the Nazis) The Informers, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (the legacy of Nazi Germany tears apart a modern-day Bogota family) Life and Fate, by [...]
PTSD—What It’s Like
Posted in Books, Grief, Life Changes, PTSD, Trauma, Wildfire, tagged #boulderfire, anxiety, Maslow's hierarchy, Peter Levine, post-traumatic stress, stress on December 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ever had stage fright? I don’t mean the good kind. Where you have some butterflies in your stomach and a bit of a metallic taste in your mouth. Maybe that’s slightly unpleasant but it can also help you focus a little better and in the end it seems to come out all right. The audience [...]
Lining Up the Silences
Posted in Books, Literary Inspiration, Reading, tagged Elaine Showalter, Mary Gordon, Tillie Olsen, writing on June 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been poking around in Elaine Showalter’s critical review, A Jury of Her Peers, which assesses American women writers from 1650 to now. This review needed to be done, and I don’t mind that Showalter’s take on some writers, like Joyce Carol Oates and E. Annie Proulx, is a lot more positive than mine. Or [...]
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