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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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Life Now

The Weather

  • Posted on September 3, 2022
  • by Lauren

September means faculty meetings and preparation for students at my little boarding school in the Adirondacks. It also means I’m winding down my online teaching and tutoring for the summer. The other night, during my…

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Life Now

Drawing Inspiration

  • Posted on August 26, 2022August 28, 2022
  • by Lauren

I’ve been on an ART BOOK kick this summer. I bought four books: one about sketching and three others about illustrating journals and collage work. I found them at a little shop along Lake Champlain,…

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Life Now

HOWL Story Slam: All in a Day’s Work

  • Posted on August 22, 2022August 22, 2022
  • by Lauren

Adirondack Center for Writing’s first writing festival was indeed  phenomenal. They capped off the event with a HOWL Story Slam on Saturday night. While I did not win (or even place), I got positive feedback…

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Life Now

Lit Mag Love: Eirinie Carson

  • Posted on August 5, 2022August 22, 2022
  • by Lauren

I’ve written about how my perspective about grief shifted dramatically when I lost my baby. O. was sixteen, my younger boy, and watching him slip away was terrifying. Living without him is like having a…

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Life Now

Lit Mag Love: Eileen Vorbach Collins

  • Posted on July 31, 2022July 31, 2022
  • by Lauren

This Lit Mag Love is all about writer Eileen Vorbach Collins. Damn, she’s prolific and so good. I came across her award-winning piece in Lunch Ticket. It reminded me of the bins I have in…

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Lit Mag Love

Lit Mag Love: Ben Sandman

  • Posted on July 26, 2022
  • by Lauren

I know some people don’t like epistolary pieces, but I almost always do. This is a series of emails from a novelist on a deadline who’s moved to a new apartment with his wife, a…

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