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"So millions of us are taking matters into our own hands. We are seizing the tools, finding our voice, exploring mediums, building communities,engaging in conversations,
connecting with new friends, discovering that we are not alone.
We are challenging ourselves to organize, collaborate
respond, and innovate. While the gatekeepers question our
credibility, we are systematically building it the old-fashioned way
- we're earning it."
~Markos
Moulitsas Zuniga - Founder, Daily Kos
Who can resist chronicling their life
in one form or another? I'm not a great participant in
daily journal scribbling, blogging, or conventional memoir, but sometimes an incident or phase of life is so troubling
or exhilarating that I must write to discover its deeper meaning. And I love describing the world around me - particularly
the "real world" - my expression for nature and environment. Much of my creative nonfiction work revolves around my experiences
with the varied environments and wildlife of my beloved adopted home, Arizona.
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Because I've devoted much of the past
decade studying and practicing the craft of fiction, my body of published nonfiction is modest and includes two
middle grade reference books, feature articles - generally about writing or assignments from a brief tourist
periodical tenure - and a handful of creative nonfiction nature essays.
A local development issue, the proposed
rezoning of scenic residential land for an airpark that would disrupt community serenity and its nearest neighbor, Garchen Buddhist Institute, sparked
me to write a "new journalism" feature titled The airstrip that wouldn't fly is try, trying again. It appeared in
the September 2007 issue of Read It Here News, Prescott, Arizona's monthly news magazine, and was posted online at the ReadItNews
website in November 2007.
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Recent Publications
Pending:
LEWIS AND CLARK
A MyReportLinks Book
Terrill Shorb & Eve Schoeneker-Shorb, Ed. Prescott, Arizona: Native West Press, 1997.
December 2003.
Print edition, September 2007.
Online edition, November 2007.
NATURAL SOUL
Drexel Online Journal
Drexel University, Summer 2004.
Reprinted on Storyhouse, 2005.
Absolute Write, February 2005.
Listen To Me: Writing Life Into Meaning
by Lynn Lauber
A MyReportLinks Book
Enslow Publishers, 2005.
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