Rebecca DeLore: Four Ways to Discover Art in Your Next Nature Walk

As a nature writer I enjoy finding ways to slow down and embrace wild spaces—inching through a forest after snowfall, climbing a mountain to reach greater heights, smelling damp sand on a beach, and in general discovering and exploring micro and macro ecosystems. In my mind, my nature walk then becomes a narration, sometimes transformative, […]

Melissa Brindley: What I Learned About Returning to College Later in Life

I was in my thirties when I decided to go back to college. I spent years working what felt like dead-end retail jobs at stores like Hallmark and Hollywood Video, and it seemed as if each store I worked in eventually went out of business. It happened so many times, my friends started calling me […]

Introducing the OE Blog

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