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Your Favorites of 2024

I think we can all agree that the year just ended, 2024, was turbulent, chaotic, challenging, and disturbing. Those of us fortunate to live with a wide sky, trees, mountains and clean air would surely add beautiful, peaceful, even hopeful, for hope springs from nature when it does not spring from the deeds of humans.

So here's the list of the top twelve posts from 2024. You may have your own favorite posts and if so do let me know what you would like to add. Until then, here it is.

And blessings on all of you, faithful readers and responders as well as those who connect from time to time. You may never know how important you are to me, but here's a start:

  • The voice of a stranger pieces the silence in which I, the writer, lives.
  • The words of a stranger, or of someone I know, introduce new meanings and new interpretations into my mind and my life.
  • The energy of all my readers and writers magically transforms into energy for me.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU — Sallie

On Memoir

February 11th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments

Still image of Sallie Bingham from video

Memoir writing is a much more serious task than it’s often considered to be. It’s not informal, it’s not casual. It really is the writing of history.

In Writing Writing writing workshops 12 Favorites of 2024

Fading Away

March 6th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women 2 Comments

Black and white photo of women marching with large banners

I’m dismayed to see how rapidly the women’s movement is fading, eclipsed by monstrous wars but also by young women’s failure to engage.

In Women Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton 12 Favorites of 2024 Suffrage

A Brief History of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Hopscotch House

April 3rd, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 5 Comments

Photo of the Hopscotch House, Louisville, KY

Having long learned… the effect of art created by women on the lives of other women… I decided to design a foundation that would support women artists in Kentucky working as feminists for social change.

In Kentucky Kentucky Foundation for Women Hopscotch House 12 Favorites of 2024 Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm

Power of Protest

May 15th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Politics Leave a Comment

Photo of large stone sculpture

All around me I hear people disparaging the campus protests so brutally put down at a number of “top” universities, disparaged as a meaningless waste of time…

In Women, Politics 12 Favorites of 2024

Book Banning Begins at Home

May 29th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 2 Comments

Book cover of Taken by the Shawnee

I’m hoping that the individuals who object to my book may in some form or another communicate with me.

In Writing Taken by the Shawnee 12 Favorites of 2024 Santa Fe Margaret Erskine

Jacob Street

June 19th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Kentucky 1 Comment

Lizzie Baker, photographed by Cecil Beaton

Jacob Street when I was growing up in the prosperous white suburbs had only one meaning: that was the address of Lizzie Baker’s house.

In My Family, Kentucky Lizzie Baker Cecil Beaton 12 Favorites of 2024

Slave Breeding in Kentucky

June 30th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 2 Comments

Photo of Oxmoor Farm Lousiville KY

Since coming home from Kentucky last week, I’ve had the privilege of connecting with several academics who have put many hours into researching this controversial and hidden topic.

In Kentucky Slavery 12 Favorites of 2024

The Death of Pip

July 24th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in My Family 7 Comments

Photo of Pip the dog in the garden

Pip, my shelter dog pitbull mix, died peacefully on Saturday after nine years of a beautiful life, hiking, enjoying the dog park, going with me on all kinds of adventures.

In My Family Mary Oliver Black Pip 12 Favorites of 2024

How Towns Are Divided

September 4th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico 3 Comments

Santa Fe Adobe home

Fear knows nothing about physical distance. It’s always fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar.

In New Mexico 12 Favorites of 2024 Santa Fe

Owning the Land

December 7th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Kentucky 3 Comments

Photo of a buck in tall grass

Even before I decided, years ago, to put the 420 acres of blessed open space into conservation easements, I felt the wild fields and thin woods had long since belonged to the creatures that have always lived there.

In Kentucky Wolf Pen Branch Mill Farm 12 Favorites of 2024

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Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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I look on the eighteen short stories in my forthcoming book How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories as a miracle I will never entirely understand—or need to, but here's a stab at it. "It's Coming!": https://buff.ly/4jXDyEX @turtleppress

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One of the rants we hear a good deal lately from a certain quarter has to do with the death of manufacturing in the U.S. and unhinged speculation about bringing it back... but what was this industry? When and where did it flourish? https://buff.ly/j5Tj6a0 #LouisvilleKY #madeinKY

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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