by Laura Rink | Jul 3, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
I wrote an essay for Big Table Press for their This Year: 2025 project, which they describe as “building a living time capsule or a conversational archive or a collection of days.” When I signed up earlier this year, the roster of writers was full and I was on the...
by Laura Rink | Jun 18, 2025 | Daily Life, Nature, Writing
[Due to my website being offline while it was being redesigned, April’s blog, as well as two Covid updates, were previously posted on Substack and Facebook.] I interrupt the regularly scheduled blog this month to bring you my first bout of Covid-19. I could...
by Laura Rink | Dec 7, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou This month, on November 6th, the citizens of the United States elected their next president. On November 8th, I left the country. I left my country for a planned trip to Central...
by Laura Rink | Oct 30, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
This month I didn’t meet my short-term writing goals of chapter revision which means I won’t reach my long-term goal of having a complete draft of my Armenian family memoir finished before my sixtieth birthday in February. I’ve written before about what is needed to...
by Laura Rink | Oct 5, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
While August was a month in which to soak up the warmth and outdoor activity of the summer season, September was a month of seasonal changes, especially as the month drew to a close, including the temperature (dropping, a bit quickly this year it seems), leaves...
by Laura Rink | Sep 4, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
If July was all about travel and community, from my MFA residency in Tacoma, WA to my family reunion in southern Oregon, August is all about staying home and walking in the forest. Even if that is not exactly how the month has gone. While I did walk in the forest this...
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