Category Archives: travel

Leaving Words at Home

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Andrea Jones

I often say I write about my home place, but that’s not true all the time. The book project currently consuming my writing energy, for example, is about scientific literacy. (Though it might far afield from the natural history and … Continue reading →

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Packing for the Trip

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Andrea Jones

First things first: I am not a poet. As I mentioned in my last post, my writerly sensibilities are suited to essays, and that’s where I’ve long staked my claim. If I were to pursue poetry again, I suspect the … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Frame

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Andrea Jones

In mid-October, I hit the road for Santa Fe, where I attended the Women Writing the West conference. After a socializing, talking shop, and attending sessions on craft and the business of writing with colleagues for a few days, my … Continue reading →

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Seeing Voices

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Andrea Jones

Back in early June, I packed my too-heavy suitcase (too many books, too much paperwork) and left the horses and the garden and the weeds and the house in care of my husband. I was off to Vermont, to the … Continue reading →

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Between Urban and…Urban

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Andrea Jones

Even though we live in the sort of place most people escape TO, my hubby and I feel the impulse for a break now and then. Sometimes the change of place from this semi-arid ridge in central Colorado’s mountains is … Continue reading →

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A Rainbow in the West

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Andrea Jones

When a delicate early-morning rainbow appeared late last week, I hustled to find the camera and take a picture. “We almost never see rainbows in the morning,” I was thinking to myself. And it’s true. Most of the time, rainbows … Continue reading →

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Homebody on the Road

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Andrea Jones

I don’t get out much. This is intentional and by nature. I enjoy the vast good fortune of a life that revolves around a home place in a beautiful natural setting. I work from home, and my husband and I … Continue reading →

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