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Life Now

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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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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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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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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Growing Up

Sunburst

  • Posted on November 6, 2022November 6, 2022
  • by Lauren

The Essex County (NY) Arts Council awarded me with a Sunburst micro-grant so I can attend the 2023 HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers.  Grants are gifts and I’m sooooo happy I’ll get to…

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Life Now

Fridays at Five Club

  • Posted on October 29, 2022
  • by Lauren

I experimented with erasure poetry this summer and led two sessions on the form with students during our fall orientation.  North Country School teachers are a passionate bunch. Over the years, we’ve had an Ultimate…

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Life Now

Mornings Like These

  • Posted on October 16, 2022
  • by Lauren

Teacher friends who know I don’t work weekends often ask about my plans when Friday rolls around. They are preparing themselves for a full day of hiking up Phelps or Algonquin, maybe a trip to…

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Life Now

When September Ends

  • Posted on September 29, 2022
  • by Lauren

Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was on the radio…again.  Billie Joe Armstrong’s love song to the pain he’s endured since his father’s death from cancer is a perennial staple on independent radio…

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