Kim Brown Seely
Writer at Freelance
Author of UNCHARTED. 🐋 Freelance words in NatGeo, Travel + Leisure, Virtuoso, Sierra, Sat. Evening Post, and others! Rep’d by Jennifer Lyons.
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2 months ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Kim Brown Seely
To find the kinds of places where rare synchronous fireflies might light the night, you drive west from the North Carolina hamlet of Maggie Valley, turn onto Newfound Gap Road (US 441), and turn again onto one of the many low-lying pull-offs edging this scenic route across the Great Smoky Mountains. You turn off your headlights, you sit in your car, and you wait a while. “You need to be patient,” Becky Nichols, Great Smoky Mountains National Park entomologist, tells me. “Look deep into the forest.
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Sep 6, 2024 |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Kim Brown Seely
The day I discovered my grandmother’s letters, I’d driven 10 hours. I drove half the way, and my traveling companion — my husband — drove the other half. I’ve always liked the timeless, nostalgic feeling of being between one place and another. Of gazing out the window at small dusty towns and wondering what people’s lives might be like there. Or stopping for BLTs in nondescript diners. Sometimes, if the weather is nice, we’ll take lunch to a picnic table we know overlooking an empty field.
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Jan 11, 2024 |
shepherd.com | Kim Brown Seely |M. Blanchet |Jonathan Raban |Herman Melville
The Curve of Time is a Northwest classic of coastal cruising. It’s a marvelous book with an almost dreamlike quality by a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packs her five children onto a 25-foot motor launch and explores the complex waters of British Columbia summer after summer. Blanchet's account of their unstructured days in Desolation Sound reads almost like fiction, but her adventures are all very real. Why should I read it?
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Dec 10, 2023 |
virtuoso.com | Kim Brown Seely
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Dec 3, 2023 |
sierraclub.org | Kim Brown Seely
They first appeared at dawn and dusk: one elk after another walking single-file through the snow. Winter came early to our home in rural Idaho last year, dropping three feet of powder in the timbered canyon behind our house and coating the mountains above it bright white. We’d spent weeks prepping for the holidays: stocking the freezer, readying the guest room for our grandson’s first Christmas, putting up lights and a tree.
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