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....
by Laura Rink | Mar 1, 2017 | Daily Life
Check out my guest blog: http://www.redwheelbarrowwriters.com/blog/resist-ignorance/
by Laura Rink | Dec 8, 2016 | Daily Life
Upon returning home, from a road trip, in the middle of November, I saw a hummingbird dart out of the large rhody in the backyard to the nearby feeder, a little sugar-water still in it, hover and drink, and then dart back into the rhody. A hummingbird in November—a...
by Laura Rink | Sep 15, 2016 | Daily Life, Memoir
The vet assures me our cat’s ill health is not my fault. Speedy, our thirteen-year-old tiger tabby, has lost over three pounds, has a urinary tract infection, bleeding gums, and failing kidneys. Cats are stoic, the vet continues, by the time you realize they are ill,...
by Laura Rink | Jul 17, 2016 | Daily Life, Writing
The worst part of my day, on the days I run errands, is in the morning when I’m standing in the grocery store watching the clerk ring up my purchases and she asks, “What are you going to do today?” A part of me finds that question an invasion of my privacy, while at...
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