An Iowan and a coastal elitist walk into a bar...and, spoiler, they're both me.
I write about community, connection, and magical moments in rural Iowa, which I'm rediscovering after two decades in San Francisco. I'm also working on my eighth novel.
Award-winning writer. Erstwhile tech worker. Small town lifer. Constantly on the lookout for joy in the midst of the apocalypse.
Writings, recommendations, conversations and FUN from Anna Sale, host of Slate's podcast Death, Sex & Money. We're all coming from somewhere.
A novelist writing about the wonders in the everyday, the enormous, the impossible, the magical. And the ocean.
A tale of two homesteads, one among the Amish, the other in Connemara, Ireland. A serialization of a new book of non-fiction.
High altitude relocation, recreation, and renovation in a town of 180 people (and 51 dogs.)