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Dances With Titles

By Elizabeth Enslin on February 20, 2010

I work hard to polish the content of my literary nonfiction and poetry but don’t always give the same attention to titles….

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Posted in Recent, Writing Process | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, Poetry, stories | Leave a response

A scene from Nepal, where I did my fieldwork.

Song Inspires Nostalgia for Anthropology

By Elizabeth Enslin on February 2, 2010

A contemporary song reminds me of all that inspired me to become an anthropologist eons ago….

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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Recent | Tagged cultural anthropology, inspiration, maturity, music, stories | Leave a response

Lessons From Dr. King on Haiti

Lessons From Dr. King on Haiti

By Elizabeth Enslin on January 18, 2010

It’s hard enough to comprehend the scale of disaster in Haiti. What’s harder is this: to stand by and watch hate, ignorance and greed breed on human suffering like maggots….

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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Politics and History, Recent, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged Haiti, Jr., Martin Luther King, racism, stories | 1 Response

Ama: My Greatest Teacher

Ama: My Greatest Teacher

By Elizabeth Enslin on November 10, 2009

Growing food this summer in northeast Oregon, I relied on all that I’ve learned over the years from books, conversations, observations, and personal experience. But I probably heard Ama’s voice more than any other….

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Posted in Cultural Diversity, Publication, Recent, Sustainable Food, World Travel | Tagged creative nonfiction, inspiration, stories, Sustainable Gardening | 2 Responses

Witnessing

Witnessing

By Elizabeth Enslin on April 10, 2009

It’s wonderful to have more and more pieces published online and in-print. But it also feels a bit disembodied. If I’m lucky, I may exchange a few emails or have a phone conversation with an editor. I never meet the others whose pieces share the same binding with me. It’s all understandable given how busy the world is, but still odd….

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Posted in Publication | Tagged creative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, nature writing, stories | Leave a response

Offerings at my son's bratabandha ceremony, Chitwan District, Nepal, January 2007

Protected: Hindu Initiation

By Elizabeth Enslin on April 6, 2009

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged maturity, Nepal, ritual, stories | 3 Responses

The Boot

Nature Writing

By Elizabeth Enslin on March 2, 2009

I’ve published (or will soon have published) six pieces over the last year of full-time writing, but the lyric essay – “A Nature Lover’s Phobia” – posted online in Fringe Magazine: The Environment Issue yesterday makes me particularly happy. I have wanted to be a nature writer since childhood.  I thought becoming a zoologist would  

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Posted in Writing | Tagged creative nonfiction, cultural anthropology, ethnography, Fringe Magazine, nature, nature writing, stories, The Gettysburg Review, wild | Leave a response

The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2009

Publication

By Elizabeth Enslin on February 16, 2009

The Gettysburg Review, Spring 2009 Flu has laid me low for the last few days.   But getting the Spring 2009 edition of The Gettysburg Review cheered me.  It includes “Natural Births” — a chapter from the book I’m working to finish.  This is my first piece of literary nonfiction in print (I’ve had a  

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Web Design: Inspiration and Distraction

By Elizabeth Enslin on January 15, 2009

Putting a website together has sucked a lot of energy from my writing over the last month.  But I’ve enjoyed it, almost to the point of addiction, and am sad about being finished.  I knew it was bad when right after I finished, I began fantasizing about a complete redesign.  And then I started bugging  

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Posted in Writing | Tagged creativity, inspiration, passion, photography, stories, web design | 2 Responses

Who Speaks for Oceans?

By Elizabeth Enslin on December 20, 2008

An Oneida story - “Who Speaks for Wolf?” – explains why human societies need interpreters and spokespeople for wolves and others who can’t speak for themselves. Not everyone has to agree with those who take on this task, but society needs them at the table. Pacific Ocean at Ka La’e, Hawaii, southernmost tip of U.S. Oregon  

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Posted in Following the News | Tagged books, climate change, inspiration, nature, Obama, oceans, solace, stories | Leave a response

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About Elizabeth Enslin

A writer based in Oregon, I look for inspiration and distractions in nature. An anthropologist, I ponder the places where nature and culture meet. A kitchen gardener, I promote biodiversity and learn from farming traditions around the world. A recovering academic, I try to do all with compassion and humor.

Find out more about me here, or at elizabethenslin.com.

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