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On Not Writing

procrastination, scientific literacy, writingBy Andrea Jones February 18, 2020 14 Comments

The classic, and in some ways definitive, advice on writing is this line by Mary Heaton Vorse, as chronicled by Sinclair Lewis: “The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” In this era of standing and treadmill desks we might need to amend…

Windbreak Anniversary

learning, poetry, reading, writingBy Andrea Jones October 26, 2017 2 Comments

About a decade ago, on the afternoon of October 12, 2007, I turned off South Dakota’s Highway 79 a few miles south of the small town of Hermosa, onto a road called Windbreak Lane. In January of that year I had quit writing, and I was on my way to a writing retreat where I…