Four times a year, the Telling Room and Space Gallery host Slant, Portland’s own version of the Moth Radio Hour, an evening of true stories told live without notes. This winter, they invited me to share a story, and on February 10th, I told a story based on my award-winning essay, “The Butterfly Effect.” You can watch it here: The…
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This Canary Has Something to Say
Not long ago, the Environmental Health Strategy Center, a member of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, sought people willing to be interviewed about why toxic chemical reforms are important to them. I volunteered, and this interview is the result: Interview with the Environmental Health Strategy Center
I know the truth; I know it in my body
When I was a girl, I had a tree. I did not own the tree, but it was mine. It had broad, heart-shaped leaves, and stood in a field at the top of a hill. I was a wild thing. All summer long, I scrambled through green and golden fields. I ran barefoot over the hot tar of the road…
A Reading from “The Butterfly Effect”
Here I am at the legendary New York literary hangout, the KGB Bar, reading excerpts from my essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” which interweaves the parallel stories of the declining monarch numbers and my challenges traveling–with multiple chemical sensitivity–to see them. The essay won the $1000 Robert Fragasso Animal Advocate Award for the Best Creative Nonfiction Essay About Animals, and was…
Pity Party
You are invited to an honest-to-goodness, true blue, no-hold-barred Pity Party in honor of Lunden and her life of suffering and deprivation. There will be no playing of the miniature finger violins. Not even a regular violin will do. No, Lunden’s story of suffering and deprivation can only be met with a full-on cello. The real thing. If you have one, you are welcome to bring it.