A woman drafts 20 chapters, stories of her travels in neighborhoods less visited. Then she doubts their value: why in a time when Amerika is collapsing, would anyone want to read stories of a privileged, white, middle class American woman roaming less traveled roads?
Curiosity about seascapes and a chance to meet friends and cousins led me to Maine. I visited refugee resettlement agencies and a valiant Peace Library. Migmar and Tenzin joined me for a fantastic tour of Rangely.
My age will get in the way of completing the five books I’d love to write. When I started How to Make a Life, I thought it would only take a year. But it took four. At this rate, I’m going to age out of life as an author. I have enough stories, but …
Friends from my days in Peace Corps in the mountains of Lesotho, from the Board of Directors of Friends of Lesotho who I’d met only on-line, and colleagues from Peace Corps Headquarters reminded me that it is the people you know who make your first and best readers. 2010 was …
