by Laura Rink | Jan 24, 2024 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
January bears the burden of high expectations: A New Year! Resolutions! Winter projects! If last month I was tired, this month, the winter holidays behind me now, I felt ready to be productive—I will get so much done this month! And yet this month has flown by—is it...
by Laura Rink | Aug 30, 2023 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
Work: Have you heard the term micro prose? I recently took a class from Darien Hsu Gee, a fellow Rainier Writing Workshop alum, in which she illuminated the benefits of writing micro prose: pieces of 300 words or less. She is passionate about this form, and offered...
by Laura Rink | Jun 29, 2023 | Memoir, Nature, Writing
Welcome to my blog. First time here? Check out May’s blog for info on my intentions for this space. Work: Last October while reading Judith Kitchen’s The Circus Train, a novella-length essay in fragments about, to name a few, mortality, Samuel Beckett, and memory, I...
by Laura Rink | Jun 14, 2023 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
June 2023 Welcome to my blog. First time here? Check out last month’s blog for info on my intentions for this space. Work: I’ve started on the next draft of my book, my untitled Armenian family memoir. The last draft I refused to begin with page one—I was sick of page...
by Laura Rink | May 24, 2023 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
May 2023 One of my motivations to write is connecting with others, and that connection can’t begin until the work goes out into the world. As I am currently writing a book, it’s a long slog before that engagement can begin. So I’ve decided to reboot, revive, and...
by Laura Rink | Apr 24, 2021 | Memoir
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. In honor of my ancestors, I’m grateful to have this short piece up at Complete Sentence.
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