Gretchen Lida is an essayist and an equestrian. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Brevity, The Rumpus, The Washington Independent Review of Books, and many others. She teaches composition in Illinois, lives in Wisconsin, sometimes lives on Nantucket Island and is still a Colorado Native.
For those of us still mourning the loss of SENSE8 and in need of a place to go after watching the series finale, here are books for fans of SENSE8.
A reader muses about fleeting moments of beauty while walking the shores of Lake Michigan with audiobooks plugged in.
Why the marriage of Demelza and Ross Poldark defies conventions, and manages to succeed.
On being a member of Avi's Army of dyslexic writers--how an elementary school presentation by children's book author Avi, and being diagnosed with dyslexia shaped one writer's aspirations.
Horse books from the modern age, from YA to nonfiction.
"I guessed each story would be full of cliché writing, and imagination would be left in a heap on the floor along with expensive, but generic, lingerie...but this was not the truth." What one writer learned from an erotica writer and editor.
A reader and lover of the natural world recommends three nature books by women for her brother, a wildlands firefighter.
