Elie Axelroth sat down with SLO New Times Arts Editor Ryah Cooley to talk about her novel, Thin Places, her recent National Indie Excellence Award, her writing process, and what she's working on now. … [Continue reading]
Is it Harder To Be Kind?
It's Sunday night and Gertrude is glued to the presidential debates. She refuses to cede control of the remote, captivated by all that mean-spirited, third grade bathroom talk and name calling. "It's turning your mind into a cesspool," I tell her. … [Continue reading]
Thin Places goes to the Shell Beach Library Open House!
Please join me at the Shell Beach Friends of the Library Open House Saturday, April 16 at 1:00 PM The day's activities begin at 10:00 AM. There will also be a succulent craft demonstration, a repurposed book crafts display, children’s activity … [Continue reading]
Thin Places Goes to Cuesta College!
Did you know that only 10% of foster youth go to college? And of that, only 3% graduate? Join us for a lively discussion about the challenges of foster youth in college and what our community can do to support their success. Monday, April 11, … [Continue reading]
My Visit to Cuba
It's easy to be taken with Cuba. The vintage American cars. Cuban jazz on every street corner. Art fashioned from repurposed detritus—hubcaps, scrap metal, broken glass. Beautiful colonial, art deco, and baroque architecture graces the cities, along … [Continue reading]
Be bold. Be daring. Be yourself.
I recently moved from one side of town to the other. The students had invaded with their enthusiasm and red cups. Lounge chairs on the roof. The week before I sold my house, I heard sawing and hammering coming from the other side of the fence. … [Continue reading]
Life Imitating Fiction
I'm running errands downtown, standing on the corner waiting for the light to change. You know how long it takes for the light to change when you're a pedestrian in a hurry. I'd parked in a thirty-minute meter hoping I wouldn't spend all thirty … [Continue reading]
Reader’s Guide to Thin Places
I had no idea how much fun it would be to meet with book groups to talk about my novel, Thin Places. The themes in the book seem to have touched many of my readers making the discussions thought-provoking, revealing, even inspiring. I've compiled a … [Continue reading]
Collapsing Sinkholes. Again.
I'm in the backyard with Gertrude pulling weeds out of the ground cover when I trip in a small cleft in the ground left from a dead strawberry bush I'd taken out a couple of years ago. As if surprised, I mutter ripe words to myself, and promise to … [Continue reading]
Sinkholes
For my Sierra Sisters Gertrude's afraid of heights, so hiking up a mountain at 7000 feet wasn't her idea of fun—no matter we were in Sequoia National Park among the giant redwoods, and chocolate lilies, and still-flowing waterfalls in our … [Continue reading]
