Blooming Eventually on Bend Moms For Moms!
This very blog is now feeding onto Bend Moms For Moms, a cool new site for those of you lucky enough to be mothering in Bend. Check it out!
Horizon Air
A new article of mine in Horizon Air Magazine’s September Issue. It’s about Education Specialization and it’s on page 58!
Phoenix Rising
I suppose it’s about time to tell you all I got another book deal. I know, huh? Three weeks ago, I received an e-mail from an acquisitions editor at a press back east. He’d been searching for someone to write a travel guidebook about Oregon for one of their series. He came across my bio…
Shades of Blue
A piece I wrote about Summer Lake is on the Travel Oregon blog. Click here to see more of my Travel Oregon posts…
A New Essay of Mine in True North Magazine
This quarter’s True North Magazine features an essay of mine: Roots and Flowers: Loss, Grief, and Growth
I Entered A Contest!
I know, it’s so *exciting*! I can barely contain myself. But to truly feel the thrilling highs and lows of the absurdly-optimistic contest slut, I need your help. Will you to vote for my entry in the 365 Days of Adventure in Bend contest held by trazzler.com before June 15 when the voting period ends?…
If You Live Through It, Turn It Into a Story
Back by popular demand and repeated request…published in High Desert Journal last year…the story of our ill-fated rafting trip down Hell’s Canyon…my essay Passing Through the Green Room…alternately titled, The Time My Husband Tried to Kill Me. (well, he didn’t mean to, and it did turn out to be a good story, after all) Click…
Rockin' the Bard
Of particular interest to anyone who has ever made-out in the back of a school bus…or wished they had… An essay from my upcoming book, Chance of Sun: A Perfectly Imperfect Oregon Upbringing, is in this month’s Oregon Quarterly Magazine. Rockin’ the Bard when the ftc comes
Happy Blogoversary To Me
Today is the one-year anniversary of this blog! Bust out the champagne! Oh. It’s 6 am. Well. Coffee will do. Slip a little something in it, if you must. Here’s a Blooming Year One redux. First post: Popcorn Blog Inspiration: Late Bloomers Hero’s Challenge, Act I: Consult Foreshadowing: Free the French Fries Plot Twist:…