By Elizabeth Enslin on March 17, 2010
I revised my St. Patrick’s Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut. A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth….
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Recent, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged cultural heritage, holidays, naming, St. Patrick's Day, wordplay
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 11, 2010
On Wednesday, April 7 from 7-9 pm, I’ll be joining Peter Sears, Jackie Shannon-Hollis and Brian Christopher for a reading and wine-tasting co-hosted by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop in Portland, Oregon….
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Posted in Readings, Recent | Tagged announcements, creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, Nepal
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 11, 2010
The High Desert Journal has accepted another poem of mine, this time for Issue 11 of their print journal, due out in April. Although it doesn’t focus exclusively on cows, my sestina, “Now That I’ve Moved Inland,” does feature them in every stanza….
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Posted in Poetry, Recent | Tagged cows, Humor, Poetry
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 9, 2010
I had my first poem published in January and am proud to announce that another poem, “What the Photo Shows,” has been accepted for publication….
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Posted in Poetry, Publication, Recent | Tagged maturity, motherhood, nature writing, parenting, Poetry
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 8, 2010
Four months after I gave birth to my son in Nepal, I celebrated my very first International Women’s Day in 1988 in Gunjanagar, a village in western Chitwan District. It was also Gunjangar’s first time to organize an event for that day. I describe the scene in Sacred Threads, my ethnographic memoir-in-progress….
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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Politics and History, Recent, Sustainability, World Travel, Writing | Tagged inspiration, Nepal, women
By Elizabeth Enslin on February 19, 2010
Tomorrow, we drive to NE Oregon to spend a week or so in our yurt (and a few other places). The creature I fear most on this trip is not the cougar, wolf or porcupine. It’s much smaller. Most females and the younger males of the species could fit into the palm of my hand….
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Posted in Recent, Species of the Week, Yurt Living | Tagged archaeology, climate change, Homesteading, mammals, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on December 18, 2009
I have a new essay published in The Smoking Poet. It’s new in the sense of being recently completed and published but also in the sense of process….
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Posted in Publication, Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged creative nonfiction, Writing, yurts
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 31, 2009
One of the things I loved best about teaching high school social studies was shaking up students’ perceptions of history. And one of my favorite lessons was in Ancient History. I’d bring in a a jar of beans and a potato with so many sprouts it looked like an octopus (the fact that I always found one in my cupboard could have doubled as a cautionary lesson in the domestic arts)….
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Posted in Politics and History, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Gardening, Yurt Living | Tagged ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, Homesteading, patience, Sustainable Gardening
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 30, 2009
It’s easy to be impatient at the pace of progress of in our yurt living adventure. We still need indoor plumbing, shelving, walls on the porch….
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Posted in Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged Homesteading, patience, photography
By Elizabeth Enslin on August 20, 2009
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Posted in Poetry, Yurt Living | Tagged Homesteading, Poetry, solar energy, wordplay, yurt
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 17, 2010
I revised my St. Patrick’s Day post from last year and posted it at Fictionaut. A commenter there bestowed on me the Gaelic version of Elizabeth….
...read more
Posted in Cultural Diversity, Recent, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged cultural heritage, holidays, naming, St. Patrick's Day, wordplay
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 16, 2010
Last week, I found my name on a list of Pushcart Prize nominees at The Gettysburg Review. I published “Natural Births,” a chapter from Sacred Threads, in their Spring 2009 issue….
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Posted in Kudos | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 11, 2010
On Wednesday, April 7 from 7-9 pm, I’ll be joining Peter Sears, Jackie Shannon-Hollis and Brian Christopher for a reading and wine-tasting co-hosted by Oregon Literary Review and Blackbird Wine Shop in Portland, Oregon….
...read more
Posted in Readings, Recent | Tagged announcements, creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, Nepal
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 11, 2010
The High Desert Journal has accepted another poem of mine, this time for Issue 11 of their print journal, due out in April. Although it doesn’t focus exclusively on cows, my sestina, “Now That I’ve Moved Inland,” does feature them in every stanza….
...read more
Posted in Poetry, Recent | Tagged cows, Humor, Poetry
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 9, 2010
I had my first poem published in January and am proud to announce that another poem, “What the Photo Shows,” has been accepted for publication….
...read more
Posted in Poetry, Publication, Recent | Tagged maturity, motherhood, nature writing, parenting, Poetry
By Elizabeth Enslin on December 2, 2009
A photograph of winter light on water through an almost leafless willow tree.
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged nature, photography, winter
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 28, 2009
Series of photographs of trees turning color in mountains of Northeastern Oregon.
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged beauty, nature, photography
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 27, 2009
A photograph of the first snow of the season in eastern Oregon mountains.
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged beauty, nature, photography, snow
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 15, 2009
I’m in Central Oregon this week with a steady wi-fi connection, so I can begin to catch up on some internet work, including long overdue reports on the latest bird activities around my Northeast Oregon yurt.
I’ve finally identified the species that hatched out of the eggs I discovered in a rusty tool box on a
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, photography, wild
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