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 moved back to my 400-person hometown in Iowa after two decades in San Francisco - and yes, it's wild. I write personal essays about community, place, and the rural/urban divide. 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.