Karen Leslie

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    • Rob Hendon — He Paints Guitars
    • The Writers Selves-Portrait at e.e. cummings’ Joy Farm
    • Discovering A “Hidden” Coffee House In Nashville
    • AMÉLIE’S: A FRENCH BAKERY AND COFFEE SHOP In Charlotte
    • Naming Moonlight Ledge (or Elk Rock) in Evergreen, Colorado
  • A Few Clippings…
    • Read “Home Run”
    • Profile: Octavia Peck (The Contributor, Nashville, USA)
    • Spalding Faculty Blog – Southern Festival of Books
    • Returning to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone
    • Smart Packing Is Smart Touring
    • 20 Things to Pack for Warm Weather Destinations
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Reading at Seattle Market.
Spalding MFA in Writing Graduation Berlin, 2014.
Mugging for Starbucks in Prague.
Naming Elk Rock, Evergreen, CO.
Travel writing trip to Little Rock, AR.
In Martha’s Vineyard where Clay was teaching songwriting
Read, then write. Read, then write. Read, then writer. :)

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  • How (and Why) to Write a “Love List” as Self-Care on Valentine’s Day. Put your oxygen mask on first, friends. I share mine so I hope you share yours! You can find the wiring exercise here: www.medium.com/@karenlesliewriter
  • Happy Valentine’s Day to my tender hearted, funny, brilliant, and ridiculously talented husband Clay Mills. Beautiful Mess is still one of my favorite songs! May you always put salt in your coffee where we’re concerned. ♥️😘🤗 #abeautifulmess @claymills2
  • Oh, Pho [fuh] I love theeeeeee...
  • The Perfect Dukan Diet Galette. I make this a few times a week at home or on the road. It’s gluten free, low fat, and low carb. This galette satisfies a bread or pancake urge—and I’ve turned most of my travel and writing buddies onto it. I sprinkle it with blueberries and cinnamon, then top it with monk fruit syrup @lakantosweetener You could sprinkle it with 85% chocolate if you want. Not that that’s yummy or anything. Just in case I have access to a kitchen, this recipe goes on the road with me, too! I just pack a ziplock of gluten free oat bran, grab eggs and a tub of Greek yogurt to stay on track. It fits on most eating plans as you can make it gluten-free, dairy free, and sugar-free. My digestion gets all wonky when I travel and this is a lifesaver... :) Every time I revamp my website, I take this with me because it’s one of the most popular. Go figs...here’s the recipe link. Please share if you like it! https://bit.ly/2GdVk75 or you can go to www.karenlesliewriter.com/category/recipes/ and find it easily. Let me know if you like it!
  • Here’s a winning horse’s perspective. How super cool is the Kentucky Derby Museum? Room after room of newsreels, scrapbooks, life size statues, and interactive displays. I can’t wait to go back and read every word and watch every video. It’s one long exciting story filled with stories. maybe the nearest thing is it’s a living history that continues. And if you want to be apart of that story somehow you still can! These are the most inspiring museum exhibits.
  • Alyssa Fox of Broadway’s Frozen. Wowza. Wowowowowow. Man, I miss NYC.
  • I’m breaking one of my selfie rules buuuuutttttt, I’m in love with my fascinator. Miss Janee helped me make this beaut at The Kentucky Derby Museum tonight! It’s like wearing a skirt...you just walk different in it. I think I had better posture, a mysterious 1940s smile, a je ne sais quoi. Ha! Anyway, I met jockey Pat Day and am now introduced to the Backside Learning Center that teaches and enriches the lives of many riders and their families behind the derby scenes. I’m planning to revisit the museum. It’s an immersive experience. Louisville got it goin on, folks. What a friendly, rich city! So, I’m just putting my Louisville and Spalding friends on notice: Karen has a Fascinator and she and her hubby will travel for a Derby party. (Wink. Wink.) Thanks for a lovely evening ABA.
  • I’m a fan of Linkin’ Bridge. Great harmonies and story!
  • Hanging out in beautiful downtown Louisville for the ABA convention at the new KICC event space. As always, I’m impressed with the friendly, cool vibe of this city. Ready to visit The Kentucky Derby tonight! Bucket list—check!
  • Old Lime Kilns down by the Susquehanna River in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Oh, there’s a story here.
  • Social Hour at Barcelona on Edgehill with the best poet bartender in Nashville @simply__elegence. Fun to pick up the writing convo every time we stop by. LOVE the Guns and Rosé Best Sangria I’ve ever had!! Coolio vibe in a town full of coolio. Mentioned @rockvalewriterscolony to her. I can’t keep it a secret! We both plan to spend a week there ASAP!
  • His name was Babby. He was the old gardener for the small country house next door to our wonderful, more humble house in rural Pennsylvania. I remember Babby’s baggy khakis, his weathered brown skin, greased, sparse hair combed back from his friendly face, and how he’d call my brother “sauerkraut head” then ruffle his hair. My brother didn’t like sauerkraut, so he didn’t like the nickname. I remember how he’d run home crying. I kept hanging on the fence and wishing Babby would make up a nickname for me. We’d climb onto the bottom rung of their picket fence ogling him while he tended the grape vines and flower beds. This grand red brick house is still an anomaly in the little village. A former governor with ties to the area owned it, then after he passed, his family rented it to a well-traveled widow who’d invite me for tea occasionally. I remember the black marble counter tops, the sun room, her collection of jade jewelry from her travels in the Orient, as she called it. Mostly, I remember Babby’s pocket full of gum...Teaberry and Black Jack licorice. One day he just disappeared from our small world and I cried with my brother.

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  • A Bio
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  • Thin Places Travel Writing
  • A Few Clippings…
  • Self-Care
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Karen Leslie