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Lolë meetup – beach ultimate frisbee
Join me (a Lolë ambassader) and Tahoe Lumber, Tahoe’s women’s ultimate frisbee team, for a special Lolë meetup on Friday September 28, 2012, on the sand across from Tahoe Mountain Sports‘ Kings Beach shop.
From 4:30 to 7:30pm we’ll be out there playing beach ultimate and showing Tahoe ladies how to throw and play. Lolë is a Montreal-based women’s activewear brand, and I swear by their apparel. From bikinis to shorts to leggings, dresses and winter jackets, I’ve got a bit of everything from the brand and absolutely love the function and look of every piece. At this event I’ll be spreading the Lolë love, teaching interested ladies about ultimate frisbee, playing a beach game, and doling out some special gifts.
Before, during and after the event, Tahoe Mountain Sports will offer a free gift with purchases over $75 and 15% off all Lolë clothing. Tell all your female friends about this meetup. You can share Lolë’s Facebook event page if you like!
Three Ways to Look at a Landscape 9/23/12
I am very excited to announce an event I’m organizing for Bona Fide Books: Three Ways to Look at a Landscape, a benefit for Adventure Risk Challenge on Sunday, September 23. Located at the Sagehen Creek Field Station north of Truckee, the workshop is all about observation, from three different points of view. We’ve paired a poet (Janet Smith), a biologist (Sue Kloss), and an artist (Michelle Murdock) up to walk participants through the woods to share knowledge and identification keys. Please help me spread the word, or better yet, ATTEND this amazing event! You’ll be supporting the great cause that is Adventure Risk Challenge (youth literacy and leadership) and learning a ton.
Cost is $60; sack lunch and snacks provided. RSVP at bonafidebooks.com, 530-573-1513.
Images (above, from left) by Gogoloopie/Flickr, Gregor_y/Flickr, and Michelle Murdock
postcard-selling at truckee thursday
If you missed my big debut at my first postcard-selling booth, here are a few pics from the afternoon. I was at Truckee Thursday in late June, as one of Riverside Studios featured artists. You can buy my postcards at Riverside Studios year-round.
published in tahoe blues
My essay “Lost on Migration?” is out in the book Tahoe Blues, published this June by Bona Fide Books. I’m very proud of its inclusion in this collection, which I also copyedited and proofread before it hit the press. It’s such a treat to get an early read on Bona Fide’s material, to help shape it into book form. The essay is of a personal nature, about my migration from Georgia to California. It’s about fitting in, being different, feeling at home. I talk about brown thrashers in California, and the lone wolverine who’s made a home here. I think animals make such interesting parallels for our lives. I just bought the book Califauna and can’t wait to read more about regional animals and our connection to them.
A big thanks to Will Richardson of Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, the “biologist friend” in my essay who discussed animals and migration with me as I was writing this essay. Will is a valuable resource in our community. Just the other day, he pulled out his telescopic lens after an ultimate game in Truckee so we could view this red-tail hawk. I snapped this photo through the lens with my iPhone.
trail mixology in edible
My first piece for Edible Reno-Tahoe is out in the current Summer 2012 issue. Called Trail Mixology, the story details the Tahoe Rim Trail Association’s foodie programs and volunteer chef and trail angel opportunities. Speaking of Tahoe Rim Trail… if you’ve got a story to tell about Tahoe’s famous trail, submit it to Bona Fide Books’ new anthology, accepting submissions through December 1.
big truck stamp
Made this custom, carved stamp for my friends at Big Truck Headwear. Best hats on the planet!
The Basque Nation On-Screen
I just finished a beast (in length at least) of a book copyediting job for the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno: The Basque Nation On-Screen: Cinema, Nationalism, and Political Violence by Santiago de Pablo, 548 pages in its manuscript form. A film study of how Basque culture and politics are conveyed on-screen, the book is a great read into fact, fiction, and myth in Basque Country history, particularly the period involving the democratic transition after Franco’s death and the various components of Basque Nationalism, especially ETA violence.
It’s amazing how much goes into the making of a film, and this book goes to show how, especially when politics are involved, films can take on all new meanings depending on the audience and the year they are viewed. Though many of the discussed films were box-office failures, I’ve marked a few for my Netflix queue.
_____smith goes AdventureSmith
It’s official. I start at AdventureSmith Explorations today as their new content & office manager! I’m excited to be back on a team, especially one that has such an exciting expertise: adventure travel. Maintaining and refreshing the AdventureSmith website is one of my primary tasks, so I’ll be deep in the SEO/web copy trenches again. While this is going to mean way less freelance work, I’ll still keep this blog updated with my side contract work, life, travel, crafting, and accomplishments at AdventureSmith. I’ve got quite a few editing gigs still in the queue this month, so it’s going to be a busy yet fun one!
talkin’ trash
A fun little proofreading project I did for Sierra Nevada Ad Partners (SNAP) last month has hit the streets. I love the design on this as it makes reading about trash collection and recycling entertaining. The center spread (top left) was like proofreading a maze. Find it in your mailbox if you’re a Truckee resident.
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