by Lisa Peet
“There’s an essay in my book from one of the most unglamorous places in the world, Waterbury, Connecticut, but I love it. I think you can find wonder and mystery everywhere. I think you can experience newness anywhere.” Continue reading
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Maud Newton on Ancestors, Imaginative Spirituality, and Old School Blogging
by Lisa Peet
“It was a tricky balance for me to go into this in a receptive spirit, and to find what might work for me in this way of looking at the relationship between the living family and the dead family.” Continue reading
Sari Botton on Oldster, Aging, and Crooked Career Paths
by Lisa Peet
“I’m really heartened to learn that I’m not the only person who feels many different ages inside myself.” Continue reading
Elise Engler on A Diary of the Plague Year
by Lisa Peet
“The longer I did it, I couldn’t be absurd anymore, because there was too much at stake. And it also was much more interesting to draw what mattered.” Continue reading
Course Correction: Stephanie Gangi on Carry the Dog
by Lisa Peet
“I really did feel like [the title] demonstrated the core theme of the book, which is determination and resilience, and figuring out how to navigate with some awkward grace.” Continue reading
Essays / Features / Nonfiction
Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House
by Lisa Peet
I craved—I still crave—transcendence, some kind of transformation to click through the plodding circuits in my brain and fire them up again, one by one, turning the lights back on. Continue reading
Robert Gipe on the Canard County Trilogy, Arts Activism, and Paying Attention
by Lisa Peet
“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading
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