Note: This blog post was submitted today as a speak-out to the Brookings (SD) Register, my local newspaper. Imagine a large piece of prime farmland where your relatives have lived for generations, getting married, working hard,…
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I’m trying to finish a novel. I’m under contract to produce a poetry anthology. I have a speech to prepare. No shortage of things to do. But sometimes a writer has to take time to…
I’m writing to ask your help. Perhaps you’ve been following the strong nonviolent resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, particularly on the part of native peoples who have established the Red Warrior Camp in its…
On Tuesday, October 28, the Public Utilities Commission met in Pierre to decide who can formally weigh in on whether it should re-certify TransCanada’s permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline through our state. As…
I’m an introvert, at heart. My husband, too. So maybe you know now why we’re dead-tired. We arrived home this afternoon from the People’s Climate March in New York City. Look at that. Wow. The…
Note: I took this photograph of Nathan while our family was camping at Glacier National Park this summer. I submitted the text below as a letter to the editor of the Brookings Register a couple…
I’ll be representing Fast for the Earth at the Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on July 5-6. Fort McMurray is among the communities suffering most on the front lines of tar…
Grand Island, Nebraska: Last Thursday, this small city was the site of the U.S. State Department’s one and only public hearing about the Keystone XL pipeline during its 45-day public comment period on the…
Good news! I’ve just released “A Mother’s Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil,” a video inspired by a conversation with Nathan, my 10-year-old son, about the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands mining. I’m now…
What a day at the Forward on Climate rally in DC! A determined, passionate crowd estimated at 50,000 strong. 150 bus-loads of citizens from 30 states. 170 partner organizations. Wow. Mama Earth mojo is…
Allow me a happy personal note: My 10-year-old son, about a half-hour ago, suddenly asked me out of the blue to talk to him about the Keystone XL. He’d been eavesdropping while I was participating…
Most of my work these days is divided primarily three ways: publishing my new poetry blog, “A Year of Being Here”; researching a historical novel that I plan to write; and actively opposing the Keystone…
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