Introductions: Mary Roach
May 21, 2021
By Rebecca Hoogs, SAL Interim Executive Director It is such a delight to introduce Mary Roach to you tonight. Mary is the author of books like Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Bonk: The Cur...
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Introductions: Natalie Diaz
May 19, 2021
By Rebecca Hoogs, SAL Interim Executive Director Natalie Diaz is the author of two acclaimed collections of poetry: When My Brother Was an Aztec and Postcolonial Love Poem. She is a poet, a scholar an...
Go Inside a WITS Classroom Visit with Robin Wall Kimmerer
May 12, 2021
In April, a group of students from Big Picture High School had a soul-enriching conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, in which they discussed writing, attention, and care and nurturing for and from t...
“Gears of Time, Cogs of Life” by Finnegan Fant
May 8, 2021
Gears of time, cogs of life home is the trees rushing by as I speed down a mountain, the scent of pine sap as I leave the ground, the shocks of a downhill bike absorbing force as I slam back down to e...
“The Classroom is the Beach” by Violet Hilgenberg
May 7, 2021
Stools are crabs that crawl across the carpet sands Chairs are the horses that once rose from the sea Tables are the rocks that the stools hid under to escape from the projector that is a white snake ...
Bookshop Superheros: Edmonds Bookshop
May 7, 2021
Bookstore workers and owners have been absolute essential workers during this pandemic—heroes on the frontlines of our mental health. After those first months when reading felt really hard, when the...
Bookshop Superheroes: Queen Anne Book Company
April 30, 2021
Bookstore workers and owners have been absolute essential workers during this pandemic—heroes on the frontlines of our mental health. After those first months when reading felt really hard, when the...
A Last Letter From Ruth
April 30, 2021
Dear friends, I arrived at SAL in the summer of 2013, and my very first SAL event was Malcolm Gladwell at Town Hall. I was so nervous that Rebecca basically had to push me out onto the stage to int...
“Help” by Paul Yoon
April 29, 2021
don’t forget the day students left this earth 250 teens don’t have a future their future like a mist their last cries help van...
Introductions: Robin Wall Kimmerer
April 27, 2021
By Ruth Dickey, SAL Executive Director In one of the essays in Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about remembering the rituals with which her parents began days, saying, “Ceremonies la...