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Tag: Fairbanks
Meeting Mary Shields
I think on this trip I am learning how to be old. Tonight I was talking with someone about Mary Oliver’s instructional book on poetry, how reading it depressed me because I’d wanted to think that poetry was so utterly an art. Every page… Continue Reading “Meeting Mary Shields”
Meeting Mary Shields
I think on this trip I am learning how to be old. Tonight I was talking with someone about Mary Oliver’s instructional book on poetry, how reading it depressed me because I’d wanted to think that poetry was so utterly an art. Every page… Continue Reading “Meeting Mary Shields”
Fairbanks Friday Round-Up
This week has us being part of a herd. Literally. We’re on a study tour of Alaska with ten other people and two guides. For a person who would rather be alone than be with anyone, this has been oddly nice. Lectures, museums, discussions,… Continue Reading “Fairbanks Friday Round-Up”
Fairbanks Finery
The dressing room at Big Ray’s in Fairbanks doesn’t have a mirror. Don’t people up here want to know if they look cute in stuff before they buy it? That amazes me. That people could be so completely focused on the functional. But looking… Continue Reading “Fairbanks Finery”
Snow Door | wisconsinacademy.org
Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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