I’m pleased to announce that “The Butterfly Effect”–which was first published in Creative Nonfiction, where it won the Robert Fragasso Animal Advocate Award for the Best Creative Nonfiction Essay About Animals, and then went on to win a Pushcart Prize–is now available online. Click here to read about monarch butterflies, the Butterfly Lady of Butterfly Town, USA, and so much more.
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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…
A Canary in New York
Since this blog is called “One Canary Sings,” I’ve decided I need to blog more actively about this canary’s ongoing efforts to sing, sing, SING about health and the environment. And a lot has been going on since last I submitted a report from the mines. First, I found out that my essay, “The Butterfly Effect,” which intertwines the parallel…