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Touching Down in a Foreign Land (Flamingo International Airport, Bonaire)

January 29, 2023 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

To step onto land unfamiliar is to invoke a kind of magic. It’s a magic of expansion—of the mind, of the spirit, of the air in my lungs too long compressed by stillness. It’s a magic of discovery, of anticipation. It’s a magic of hope. As I step onto that land, I pause, feeling for […]

Filed Under: travel, writer's life Tagged With: inspiration, reasons to write, travel, vacation

Cowboy Storytellers Weave Magic

December 30, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg 2 Comments

What’s better than an old cowboy telling stories? Two old cowboys egging each other on! In October, I was in Oklahoma City to speak at the Women Writing the West conference. One of the best parts of the WWW conferences is the field trips they include, usually to museums or art galleries that dive into […]

Filed Under: writer's life Tagged With: Cowboys, Museums, research, travel, westerns, writing conferences

Small, Extraordinary, Everyday Moments in Bonaire

November 26, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

An island of fossilized coral sits surrounded by Caribbean waters about 50 miles off the Venezuelan coast. This island is home to 1,100 wild donkeys, 15,000-20,000 pink flamingoes, and 30,000 wild goats. And only 20,000 people. What this not-so-typical Caribbean island, Bonaire, lacks in glitzy nightlife and casinos, it makes up for with some of […]

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Wanderlust Looks Out on a Cold Morning

February 25, 2022 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

As I write this, it’s a balmy 2 degrees Fahrenheit here on the eastern plains of Colorado. (That’s –17 Celsius, for those of us who can’t do the conversion in our heads.) As someone whose fingers turn to ice when it dips below 72, I’m not in what I’d call my “happy place” right now. […]

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Songwriting Sparks at the Bluebird Café

November 10, 2021 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

The Bluebird Café in Nashville has a storied past, as die-hard country music fans will tell you. Not being one of those, I hadn’t heard of it before this past weekend. Shame on me. The Bluebird Café is a tiny little “listening room” tucked into an unassuming strip mall, far from the noise and neon […]

Filed Under: writer's life Tagged With: inspiration, music, songwriting, travel

Finding Familiar Stories in Sicilian Ruins

August 20, 2015 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

An ocean scene mosaic at the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily Standing in the remains of a palace built nearly two thousand years ago, I stared at mosaics on the floor depicting stories I knew. And those stories aren’t just two thousand years old. In fact, those stories were already a […]

Filed Under: travel, writer's life Tagged With: Italy, myth, Sicily, storytelling, travel

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