“It was as if I was betraying my gender by doing something that, you know, a man should be doing.” Author and poet Karen Auvinen talks about her memoir – Rough Beauty – 40 seasons of mountain living. “The memoir is really about my deep relationship with landscape which became a pretty deep relationship with myself, my strength and independence and really feeling my agency in the world.

I needed a bunch of space around , in order to stay put.


You don’t pick the dog, the dog picks you.

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