Karen Anderson
Essays by Karen AndersonKaren Anderson is a writer who lives and works in Traverse City, Michigan. She was a columnist for the Traverse City Record-Eagle for 30 years and published two collections.
Since 2005, she has contributed weekly essays to Interlochen Public Radio. An illustrated collection of her essays was published in 2017, “Gradual Clearing: Weather Reports from the Heart.”
Karen has a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan and is retired from Northwestern Michigan College where she was director of marketing and public relations. She enjoys camping, canoeing, reading, writing, listening and learning.
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For the first hour, paddling seems effortless and I watch the scenery going by .... By hour two, my back is aching but when I cross my legs, the ache is gone.
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The advice you get when you take a boat out on a like turns out to be pretty good life advice, too.
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Practicing piano for popularity, with a healthy dose of youthful skepticism.
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I understand the wish for privacy and I share it. But it’s a fine line—a property line—and we also have a responsibility to the people on the other side.
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A reflection on poems, and whose are studied and remembered.
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I was with a group of friends and we started out asking, “How would you define ‘wisdom’?”
