My Reinvention Reading List on Undomesticated Magazine

My Reinvention Reading List on Undomesticated Magazine

Thank you to the editors of Undomesticated Magazine for publishing my article, “A Reinvention Reading List.” In 2012, my husband and I quit our jobs in Los Angeles and booked a one-way flight to Bali, Indonesia where we had spent many months in 2008-9. We anticipated spending the indefinite future traveling throughout Asia, supporting ourselves with We Said Go Travel, … Continued

Freedom: Kept Together by the Bars Between Us

Amy Friedman, our Independence Travel Writing Contest Judge and award winning writer of Desperado’s Wife, offered to share her story. Kept Together by the Bars Between Us When we met, he had already served 7 years of a 13-years-to-life sentence for murder. He was once a drug dealer and had shot and killed another dealer … Continued

Israel: Savoring the Taste

My friend Baruch and I wended our way up into the northern Galilee in Israel, up into the mountains. Just a few kilometers from the Blue Line – the UN determined border between Israel—we drove past an Israeli Army outpost and its patrols dressed in their heavy uniforms in all that heat. The day hovered … Continued

Freedom: Released from Jail, Day One

An excerpt from Desperado’s Wife: A Memoir by Amy Friedman Elton I can still feel the churning pleasure I felt as I anticipated the day of Elton’s release. The idea of leading someone out, of driving someone to his freedom was the first real pleasure I’d felt in years, the first day after too many … Continued

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