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Julene Bair

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in Goodland, Kansas, The United States

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Julene Bair is the author of The Ogallala Road, A Memoir of Love and Reckoning (Viking Penguin 2014). Her first book, One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter, won Mid-List Press’s First Series Award and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West. Bair’s essays have appeared in venues ranging from the New York Times to High Country News. A 2004 NEA fellow, she has taught at the University of Wyoming, the University of Iowa, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Denver’s Lighthouse Writers and the Jackson Hole Writing Festival. Prior to teaching and writing, her career interests ranged from the management of a San Francisco recording studio to filmmaker to farmer. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University o ...more

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	The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning 3.52 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Mothers and Sons: Women Writers Talk about Having Sons and Raising Men by Patricia Stevens (Editor), Sallie Tisdale (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter (First Series:Creative Nonfiction) 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Ever-Ending Earth

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“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t cloaked in forest, nor draped in green. Green was pastoral, peaceful, mild. Desert beauty was “sublime” in the way that the romantic poets had used the word- not peaceful dales but rugged mountain faces, not reassuring but daunting nature, the earth’s skin and haunches, its spines and angles arching prehistorically in sunlight.”
― Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

tags: desert, nature, wilderness

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“To have deep roots in a place means having dead buried there. It is almost that literal, the dead forming your bond to the earth and to the others whose dead lie buried there. I always had that bond whether I knew it or not.”
― Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

tags: bonds, death, family, family-history, roots

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“And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives that gave us life and others that gave our lives meaning have ended.”
― Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

tags: acceptance, death, family

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