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Gretchen Staebler

Gretchen Staebler

I am a Pacific Northwest native transplanted to the southeast for 36 years. In 2012, I returned to my childhood home and fell in love with this corner of the country again. I am a grandmother, a storywriter, a teacher, an attention payer, a hiker, and a back roads wanderer. Check out my website (and my memoir) at www.gretchenstaebler.com.

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Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
She promises one year, living with her stubbornly independent 96-year-old mother, cleaning out the house her parents had stashed musty history in for five decades, and getting her mother moved elsewhere. Four years later, the author is still trying to stay sane in the face of her mother’s increasing dementia, fighting old battles and learning respect and acceptance.
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“Story is the shortest distance to the human heart.”

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Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Eight
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Eight

I dreamed about the excavation this week. Maybe it’s time to get back to the dig site; it’s been a … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Eight

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Seven
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Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Seven

My parents were wordies. One year in the late 1970s, I gave them an Upwords game for Christmas. It turned … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Seven

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Six
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Six

When the sun returns after the epic monsoon and flooding, that came on the heels of snowmaggedon, I load the … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Six

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Five
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Five

My family moved thirty miles down Interstate 5 in 1960. I was eight years old. That ribbon of highway marked … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Five

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Four
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Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Four

I took time off from the dig to create gifts for my sisters from my mother’s collections for craft projects. … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Four

How to Be a Winter Person
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

How to Be a Winter Person

Wintering. A season in the cold. A transition between two worlds. Often involuntary. Always inevitable. As we enter this third … Continue reading How to Be a Winter Person

Discord & Harmony
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

Discord & Harmony

It’s the winter solstice, my favorite cozy celebration of the year; the long night the breath between discord and the … Continue reading Discord & Harmony

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Three
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Three

My mother was earnest, I will give her that. Not only that, but definitely that. This week’s tackle is the … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Three

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Two
Notes from Three of Earth Farm

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Two

My mother’s superpower was, it seems, the will to collect, prepare, and press leaves and flowers. I hope she took … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part Two

Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part One
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Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part One

“An archeological excavation is the exposure, processing, and recording of archeological remains.” I have been living in my family home … Continue reading Excavating a Home: An Archeological Dig, Part One

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