Category Archives: Published Works

Good Book Upstairs, Big Book Downstairs

The tension between writing what interests me and writing what makes money has been a constant in my career. I’m delighted to report that my decision to write about recovery has resulted in my first publication in a national, glossy print magazine. Thanks be to God!

I picked out the photos, too. (Boasting now)

Take a look, I’m proud of it:

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30A: A Love Story

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This is the cover photo for Good Grit’s first issue; 30A A Love Story is the cover story and I’m proud of it!

I’m honored to be a part of a new magazine of the South, called Good Grit. If you’re not familiar with it, please check it out in print, or online. Buy a subscription. It’s beautiful. The Harvest issue has just been published and it’s a keeper too.

 

By Karyn Zweifel

My mother was born near the geographic center of the continent, oldest child of a teacher and a mail carrier, about as distant from the sea as it is possible to be. Surrounded by waves of golden grain as far as the eye could see, she dreamed of the ocean, endless ripples of blue fringed with white. When she finally made it to the seashore at age 22, it was in reality a homecoming; “I knew when I saw it that that’s where I came from,” she says. “I just cried, it was so beautiful.” To this day she feels more connected to the universe at water’s edge than anywhere else on earth.

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