Heather Lende
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It’s that simple—and that hard.
Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Find the Good offers up short chapters...
Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Find the Good offers up short chapters...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
274 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the 2016 presidential election, writer Heather Lende, inspired to take a more active role in politics, runs for assembly member in Haines, Alaska-- and wins. But tiny Haines-a place accessible from the nearest city, Juneau, only by boat or plane-- isn't the sleepy town it appears to be. From a bitter debate about the expansion of the fishing boat harbor to the matter of how to stop bears from rifling through garbage to the recall campaign...