Geocaching?! Letterboxing?! Outdoor family treasure hunts turn hiking into a game Brett said she did it with her nephews in the Sahara. Jody said it was a great way to explore her home state of North Carolina with her 7 and 4-year-old. Zach said his family geocaches whenever they visit a new place. It sounded intriguing but what the heck…
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Bob Russell in Oregon Business Magazine
My contributor copies of Oregon Business Magazine came in yesterday’s mail. My article, “Down By the Old Mill,” is a profile of Bob Russell, a Portland-Oregon born businessman who wore a suit and tie working as a sales rep for Canon Global until he laid eyes on the historic Butte Creek Mill in Eagle Point. His energy and enthusiasm for…
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New Blog at Mothering.com: Mothering Outside the Lines
I have been hired to write a blog for mothering.com, the Website for Mothering magazine. The blog is called “Mothering Outside the Lines.” The focus is pregnancy, birth, new baby care, and family life from an often political, activist-informed, natural health perspective. Updated to add: I wrote the Mothering Outside the Lines column for nearly two years, from October 2009…
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Call for Stories About Girls
A call for submissions from NPR: The Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories and images and videos and writings. We’re launching a new multimedia series on NPR this January, a listener collaboration in the tradition of Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, and The Sonic Memorial Project. This one’s about girls. Girls and the women they become. Stories of coming…
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The Need for a Public Health Insurance Option
Here’s a letter I wrote to Senator Ron Wyden this summer about why our family, like over 45 million other Americans, has no health insurance. My biggest concern in the health insurance debate is that we will let the public option go. If we don’t have a public option, the fight for health insurance will amount, in my opinion, to a…
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Save the Date: Author Peter Ferry coming to Ashland on January 19, 2010
The debut novel by author Peter Ferry, Travel Writing, is something of a metafictional detective story narrated from the point of view of a high school English teacher. The teacher takes time off to investigate the death of a young woman. Peter Ferry will be coming through Ashland, Oregon at the end of January. Read an interview with Peter Ferry…
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