by Laura Rink | Aug 29, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Online Presence, Writing
Last November, I was out of the country when the latest exodus from Twitter took place. Many in my writing community were fluttering over to Blue Sky. I wasn’t on Twitter, but I joined Blue Sky out of a sense of solidarity. We are all in this together! It was easy and...
by Laura Rink | Aug 15, 2025 | Daily Life, Writing
True story. Sometimes the writing feels impossible. More specifically, the organization of the writing. The structure of a chapter. The narrative arc of a manuscript. What exactly is going exactly where? How are all those facts, all these thoughts and feelings, all...
by Laura Rink | Jul 24, 2025 | Writing
I’m excited to share the reprint of an essay dear to my heart, “Geraniums” on Short Reads. Short Reads publishes new and previously published flash essays, one a week. You can read “Geraniums” here. How this happened: I haven’t been submitting much. I...
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 19, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir
[Due to my website being offline while it was being redesigned, this update was previously posted only on Substack and Facebook.] Days 14 – 17 May 3-5 After the rebound of Covid symptoms for forty-eight hours, those symptoms again subsided. On day 17, I saw my doctor...
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