Amelia Earhart Didn’t Crash!

Thoughts and Musings

…and other thoughts on Making IT On graduation morning in July of 2011, a Goddard College advisor asked me how I felt about my post-Goddard future. There wasn’t a feeling. Just an image. A few weeks prior to graduation I had seen the Amelia Earhart biopic,...

The Original World Wide Web

Alumni News, Thoughts and Musings

By Lucas M. Peters My polyglot wife is fond of telling me that as you are learning a new language, you are learning a new culture. Language, she says, is an extension of the culture of a place and its people. It is an unwieldy thing that has many strange branches and...

Kick off July with Dani Shapiro

News Flash, Visiting Writer

Dani Shapiro will be joining the summer residency in Vermont!  Join us on Wednesday, July 1st at 7 pm in the Haybarn Theater for a reading and booksigning, courtesy of our Visiting Writer series.  Open to the public.  And don’t forget, if you are an alumni of...

How I Picked Up a Spade and Became a Writer

Thoughts and Musings

by Kimberly Mayer The year was 2000. The end of the second millennium, the beginning of the third. A recent transplant from Philadelphia to Seattle, one of the first things I did in my new land was enroll in The Master Gardener Program. King County is where the...

Trapped in the Iron Maiden

Alumni News, Thoughts and Musings

For the last year, my body’s felt like it’s been trapped inside its own iron maiden.  You know, one of those medieval torture devices the size of the human body with spikes in the interior.  I read that the device was entirely made up, and that it wasn’t.  I read that...