num_pages: 276
description: Outside of Ordinary is Dropped Threads meets Around the World in 80 Days. Thirty-two women writers, including CanLit luminaries Sharon Butala (Lilac Moon, The Perfection of Morning), Lorna Crozier (Whetstone, Apocrypha of Light), and Alison Pick (The Sweet Edge) speak frankly about real-life travel experiences. Whether around the corner or around the globe, each woman explores both the inner and outer journeys that they have undertaken. From muddled romance to illegal smuggling, and isolated retreats to rigorous development work, these women have done it -- unexpectedly, sometimes, but always without regret.Suspended in solitude / Kathie Sutherland --Bocca della Verità / Sharon Butala --Jaws in a bowl / Jane Eaton Hamilton --Sundowners in the Cockpit / Jeananne Kathol Kirwin --Roads to Iowa (... and a few other places not on the map) / Alison Lohans --Traveling: poetic notes / Holly Luhning --Shifting Gears / Elaine K. Miller --The Hero(ine)'s journey / Janet Greidanus --A Russian journey: Cold War and fragile peace / Ellen S. Jaffe --Fear of hitchhiking / Amanda Stevens --Chilean winter / Lorna Crozier --I Was a Swami in Mexico / Linda Pelton --The rule / Alison Pick --A healing beauty / Charlotte Caron --Ways of knowing / Jan MacKie --Lautan / Jody Wood --Passages / Catherine Bancroft --The edge of risk / Chris Marin --Made in Taiwan / Angèle M.C. Palmer --Journey / Amy / Coupal --"I'm not just here to take a walk, you know ...!" / Christine McKenzie --The missionary and her mission / Sarahmaya Hamilton --Growing up in Shanghai / Marion Jones --Indelible gifts / Anne M. Sasso --Gift of whimsy / Carole TenBrink --Day and night in the Horn of Africa / Cheryl Mahaffy --Andalusian admissions: becoming my mother's daughter / Larissa L. McWhinney --Travels to Momostenango: every day has a face / Gillian Steward --From Thailand to Japan / Christina Owens --Yukon Odyssey / Aprille Janes --Calle 55: notes from the Canada-Mexico writing/photography exchange / Shelley A. Leedahl --Separate spheres / Lynn Cecil
language: English
title: Outside Of Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories
titlecomplete: Outside Of Ordinary: Women's Travel Stories
genres: Travel, Fiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Second Story Press