Women We Read This Week
Darcey Steinke’s “Frankenstein’s Mother” in Granta This moving essay about the writer’s relationship with her “monster” mom weaves family history with the story…
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Map to Motherland
This morning, Steven and I woke up late and tired because our two-year-old had been up twice in the night dreaming about scary dinosaurs…
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On Packing
It is best to use a well-made bed or the floor, so long as you have a large, smooth, clear surface, a canvas, if you will.
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Vela wins 2 (!!) Silver Medals in this year’s Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing
The results are out this morning for this year’s Best Travel Writing Awards from Solas/Travelers’ Tales (read the full line-up here) and Vela Magazine…
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Fellowship and the Emerging Writer
Sitting in my half-packed office at Colgate, I gazed outside at the spring rain dampening the old stone buildings of that beautiful campus.
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A Year of Vela
Today, September 6, 2012, we at Vela celebrate the first anniversary of the magazine.There is much to come, but before we get to all of…
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Wind Horses of Mustang
Having a horse here is like having a motorbike in the city,” Bhupendra Sherchan explained the first day we rode out together on the flanks of snow-capped Nilgiri.
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