by Laura Rink | Jun 27, 2019 | Writing
From the opening address by Sonora Jah—The Writer in Uncertain Times—to the closing address by Omar El Akkad—Lies of Our Own Making: The Obligations of Literature in a Politically Fractured Age—my hometown writing conference contained immense ideas, blood-pumping...
by Laura Rink | Jun 20, 2019 | Nature, Writing
A wash of pink spreads across the lavender sky. The apple orchard grays into view. Soon Shotpouch Creek will surface, rippled in white. But first something new: bits of darkness darting through the air. It’s too early for the robins that will dot the meadow feeling...
by Laura Rink | May 16, 2018 | Daily Life, Writing
Check out my guest blog at BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog: Real Life vs. the Failed Writing Retreat...
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 | May 1, 2017 | Daily Life
In my Red Wheelbarrow Writers guest blog, Resist: Ignorance, I discussed reading books to help deepen my understanding of and empathy for other people. Still working on that list, still glad I’m doing so. But reading a book is not the same as speaking with a person....
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