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 | 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...
by Laura Rink | Sep 3, 2017 | Memoir, Writing
In the third grade, I read The Little House in the Big Woods series of books. You could write about your own life—what a revelation! I wanted to do that. But also, a disappointment—my life wasn’t as interesting as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s. Mine was a normal life. Two...
by Laura Rink | Nov 5, 2015 | Writing
People blog for many reasons: to inform, amuse, advise, pontificate (what a great word—sounds like what it means), but in general, people blog to share their life experiences. And that is what I intend to do here—share my writer’s journey, and, on occasion, the...
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