I’m trying to adopt a philosophy of saying “yes” whenever I can. Even when that “yes” leads to several pie tins’ worth of whipped cream in the face. In the spirit of Natalie Goldberg’s essay “A Tourist In Your Own Town,” I’ve been exploring Spokane, my new hometown, as a tourist destination. As regular WanderChic […]
Tourist in your Own Town
How To Be a Tourist In Your Own Town: Stop, Look, Smell the Flowers
It pleases me that the code for the Grand Rapids, MI airport is GRR. What a nice, primal sound. I was welcomed to Michigan’s West Coast by a sign above the GRR baggage carousel. I knew that Michigan had a mitten part and an upper part, but I hadn’t thought about its coasts. I’m in […]
How To Be a Tourist In Your Own Town: Slow the Heck Down (in Spokane’s Perry District)
Natalie Goldberg’s creative writing handbook Writing Down the Bones includes a chapter called “A Tourist in Your Own Town.” Natalie Goldberg is Buddhist, and her book is a Buddhist book. The short chapters drop some wisdom on you and then leave you to contemplate the white space or a lotus blossom. The gist of Goldberg’s […]