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In Service to Your Story: A Grief Writing Workshop

  • Posted on March 2, 2023
  • by Lauren

I’m launching a series of writing workshops in and around the North Country this summer. The first creative nonfiction/memoir class is slated for June 10, 2023 in Lake Placid, New York and limited to five…

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Book Reviews

Books for the Couch or Commute

  • Posted on February 19, 2023
  • by Lauren

I lead a quiet life and reading keeps me steady. Here are a few recommendations:  Oona out of Order by Margarita Montimore. It’s got everything I like in a book: romance, grief, and time travel.…

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Lit Mag Love: Charlotte Hamrick

  • Posted on January 22, 2023
  • by Lauren

From eighth grade until my sophomore year, I crushed on Mike Rock. Then my laser focus turned to Scott Sabella until I graduated from high school. We attended our junior prom together. To be honest,…

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Life Now

Knitting a Silver Lining

  • Posted on January 14, 2023
  • by Lauren

I wasn’t thinking about wool hats when I trekked up Prospect Mountain during a cloudless, scorching afternoon last May. The Hike for Hope, an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention event, along the paved roadway only…

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Book Reviews

The Inner Pandemic

  • Posted on January 3, 2023January 3, 2023
  • by Lauren

Matt Richtel’s December 2022 interview on NPR’s Fresh Air explained the teen mental health crisis in the U.S. as our “Inner Pandemic” : NPR/Fresh Air While this book is in no way a replacement for therapy,…

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Lit Mag Love

Lit Mag Love: Charlotte Maya

  • Posted on December 26, 2022December 29, 2022
  • by Lauren

I am familiar with grief math, especially word problems: If Lauren was 49 when her younger son died at sixteen in 2018, how old will she be when she’s lived sixteen years without him?  Answer:…

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Life Now

Published: The Gardan Journal

  • Posted on December 15, 2022February 12, 2023
  • by Lauren

Craigardan, a farm & arts community in the Adirondacks, published a hybrid piece I created using the flashcards my younger son made to study Spanish for their latest issue.  Language Lessons: The age-old symbolism of…

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Life Now

Published: Marriage in the Mountains

  • Posted on November 27, 2022
  • by Lauren

This piece started to take shape when it was my turn to drive. My husband pulled into a rest area so we could switch. When I was settled behind the wheel, he made some funny…

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Lit Mag Love

Lit Mag Love: Jamy Bond

  • Posted on November 20, 2022
  • by Lauren

This is a grief memoir on fire in Mozambique. It’s a long love letter to a younger sister, a Peace Corps volunteer. The writer, Jamy Bond, was also a Peace Corps volunteer. She opens with…

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Life Now

An All-School Grief Conversation

  • Posted on November 13, 2022December 16, 2022
  • by Lauren

During a recent Town Meeting, an all-school event following breakfast on Wednesdays, I presented a slideshow and story about growing with grief.  “What to Do When Something Bad Happens to You” has spun around in…

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