This summer, I put out my first poetry chapbook, The Last & The Lasting. It covers the emotional side of years of working on environmental issues and left politics against the backdrop of climate change and ecological devastation. You can buy … Continued
I have a favorite quote in poster form on the wall of my bedroom by late historian Howard Zinn which I use to talk myself down from the hopelessness and exhaustion that often seem inevitable stages in caring about anything … Continued
Looking back, I consider my final stop in Bloomington, IN a necessary transition between the constant movement and work of the summer back into being home. I didn’t work, was functionally out of money, and did quite little while in … Continued
As I waited to leave Washington D.C. by train with my backpack filled with notes and recordings from so much experience over the past month, I asked myself, “Why Kentucky, again?” I was somewhat familiar with the radical and awesome … Continued
After deciding to make a small sliver of time to visit Washington D.C., I decided to do it as an unabashed tourist. And what better way to be a tourist but to interview other tourists? I asked random strangers around … Continued
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I meant to skip right past Washington D.C. altogether. Instead, I spent a little less than a day there interviewing tourists (I’ll post that next) and wandering around snapping photos as a tourist … Continued
Throughout this trip, friends of friends or long-distance friends had stepped up for me time and again. In Baltimore, I had been set up with friends of my dear Spokane friend, and bad-ass activist in her own right, Celia. Rosemary … Continued
The train ride from New York to Philadelphia is short and filled with regular commuters and a smattering of tourists. I probably looked somewhere in between, tapping away on my laptop purposefully, but given away by my giant backpack and … Continued
I woke up on Janelle’s couch, fairly late in the day since we didn’t really settle in until after 3:00 AM. Since she is a champion, she had already headed to work at 8:00 or 9:00. Even though it was … Continued
The following is a short essay written for performance that I shared with the International Women Artists’ Salon in New York City in August and wrote in a hurried day and a half on the topic of cross-generational engagement. … Continued