The TBEX Girona Sessions

If you missed our session at TBEX, I compiled the meat of the conversation Will Peach and I have been having about travel writing here: Will Peach and Pam Mandel on Creative Travel Writing

Back in the Saddle Again

The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. — Ann Strong, Minneapolis Tribune, 1895 Last weekend, I bought an electric bicycle. I did not mean to buy a new bicycle. …


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Nostalgia. Nirvana. Nevermind.

I recently picked up a contract for some travel writing about Seattle, my home town. It’s guidebook style writing, but there’s an interesting twist to the approach and I was keen to tackle the cultural pieces. I’ve lived in Seattle for nearly 20 years and while I’m not in tune with everything that’s the new …


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The Ice Storm

“It’s like we’re high,” said my friend Eileen, and I laughed because she was right. We had headed out for a walk in my neighborhood but it was impossible for us to move forward, everything was wrapped in a sparkling clear layer of glassy ice and we needed to look all of it. Twice. Up …


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Ice Storm

We interrupt this month of guest posts for some pictures from the ice storm in Seattle.