Dear Friends, I got back to Ottawa from the UK last night, having spent a wonderful couple of weeks doing events and catching up with family. A more fulsome recap of those things is forthcoming. For now, though, I just wanted to remind folks of imminent The River Has Roots| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, A curiosity about Ghost, this newsletter software I use, is that every time I log in to write something in it I'm haunted by past selves. From my dashboard, I click on "posts," and there appears a list of posts begun but not finished; I've just counted and| Amal El-Mohtar
Apologies if you're getting this newsletter twice – it seems to have had a lot of delivery issues, from turning up in spam to being delivered hours late to simply not being delivered at all. We've tweaked some settings to hopefully avoid this happening in future; to be extra safe and| Amal El-Mohtar
From where I'm sitting – on a dear friend's couch in Colorado – I both can and can't see a mountain. Thick, flurrying snow obscures it from view every few minutes, catching on tall, sturdy pines, sleeving their sharp green fingers in white. But the snow paused long enough for a Steller's| Amal El-Mohtar
Friends, readers, fellow travellers, I'm writing from a dear friend's dining room table in St Louis, where I'm listening to sparrows, petting a perfect orange cat, and catching my breath. From March 4 to March 8 I was in a different city every day: New York, Portland (Maine), Chapel Hill,| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, Against all odds, today is March 4th. Which means – as it has meant for months and months that vanished into a hole in my pocket – that The River Has Roots is out in the world. Should you wish to support its journey, you can do any of the| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, First, welcome new readers! Since last I wrote, I turned 40, found this year's bird (of which more anon), and saw the passing of three New Years. I hope to find the time to write about any of those things before going on tour for The River Has| Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends, It's December 6! We're a week out from my birthday! I have scraps of letters I was writing in November that I haven't sent because that month managed to feel several months long and also vanish in an eye-blink. But since we're now less than three months out| Amal El-Mohtar