Sometimes some of us travel to get away. That space—that distance—from our home life offers perspective and breathing room. We get a chance to reflect on what is beautiful and what is broken. Often, …
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Shapeshifting
I feel a shapeshifting coming on...like a slow trickle at the beginning of a landslide after which everything changes...shifts slightly to the left. To the right. The push of a breeze on the small of …

Seize the Rain
Late one night I sat on my porch with a few sputtering candles and listened to the wind and rain thinking about how fleeting is time, how fragile, life. It reminded me of a time my car broke down in …

A Day In The Life—Karen Leslie
Spalding MFA Alumni Blog, 2017—On this episode of A Day in the Life we meet Summer 2014 graduate Karen (Chronister) Leslie, a fiction and travel writer based in Franklin, Tennessee. When Karen isn’t …

Revisiting Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
Some places dig deep into our souls. We find "thin places" where the veil between heaven and earth slips aside. It's no wonder we return. Last fall, I traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, after a …
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