Author Archives: Alyson Indrunas
Nesting Through Grief
Grief, like an apple tree, grows crooked not straight. ~Robert Macfarlane One month ago, the love of my life and I said good-bye to our dog. Our best friend of fifteen years. He was having more bad days than good, … Continue reading
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Turn And Face The Strange
This week, the Feminist Survival Project podcast is going to end, and they asked their listeners share what they learned, and so I thought I’d get bloggy with it as a way to express my gratitude for their podcast and … Continue reading
Quick Sketch
I promised myself I’d try to blog at least once a month this year, so here it is. I don’t really have anything in the bloggy draft that I’m ready to click publish with, and I just realized that September … Continue reading
Somewhere Between The Time
“But I’d finally reached a point where the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a book that sucked.” ~Cheryl Strayed Of the three things I’ve learned since I’ve started watercolor painting, what … Continue reading
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Perfectly Imperfect
“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time.” ~Georgia O’Keefe Teachers in online videos use phrases like perfectly imperfectly, loosely connected, ever-changing, uncontrollable … Continue reading
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Chapter 3: A Memoir
The trouble with goals is that you’re constantly working toward what you used to want. ~Sarah Manguso from 300 Arguments I keep this notebook of the memoir I’m working on, and it has sat collecting dust for the past two … Continue reading
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Teaching
All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.” ~Raymond Carver I love Raymond Carver, and I’ve reused (plagiarized?) this title so many times because I wish I had created it. … Continue reading
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Ça Depend
We all carry trace fossil’s within us–the marks that the dead and the missed leave behind. Handwriting on the envelope, the wear on a wooden step left by footfall; the memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so … Continue reading
Chapter 2: A Memoir
This week I spent my morning writing time working on the second chapter of my book, “On and Off The Trail.” I’ve decided to ditch Medium after learning there is a paywall, and I’m not actually down with (wait for … Continue reading
Chapter 1: A Memoir
Ten months ago, I wrote this pretentious somewhat overwrought blurb for the book that I was going to write. Ten months later, I have a draft with some reasonable heft, and nine chapters. So here goes. The first assignment of … Continue reading
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