- There are two personalities present, one an extrovert and the other mostly an introvert. When you return to either place, do you resume each lifestyle smoothly? Or is it more like jet lag, something you have to get over with time and rest?
- So skunk cabbage is bear candy. How did you find out about that? Do you have a friend who studies nature or do you have a special way of finding interesting facts about nature?
Christopher Bakken
- In Nea Potamia, when you speak to the old man from the middle of the road he mentions the places you'll pass and the phrase "It was once a very long way by foot. May your road be good." I'm just curious to know how you can remember so many details so vividly within your stories. Do you carry around a journal or do you take creative nonfiction freedom and try to make the history as accurate as you can remember as soon as practical?
- In your essays you include a recipe at the end to wrap things up. I think I have a pretty good idea as to why you do this (what with the luminous details about what you're cooking and eating), but can you explain the idea behind this in your own words?
Good questions, especially those for Ayres. Hope you ask them.
ReplyDeleteBoth were wonderful people to meet. I love that Kathy writes about bears simply because she's obsessed with them.
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