Homing
Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Taya Young
, Barry Kazimer
, Janet Miller
, cassandra schiemann
, Jude Castillo
, Marilyn Stanley
, Dot Mann
, Jane McRobb
, Agnes Marshall
, jaynie jackson
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Kevin Smith
, Mary Therrien
, finn mulryan
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Brad MULLER
, Elle Kishia
, Yutong Wu
, Trish Bowering
, Shannon Leclerc
, Anita Janik-Jones
, Brittney Warren
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Kirsten Lyon
, Kayley Ashman
, Ching Ching Wu
, Lesley Sturge
, Louise Walsh
, Natasha Andres
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Andrea Pole
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joshua Lewis
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Sara Hawkins
, Noelle Walsh
, Emily Steiner
, Mark Gorman
, Allison Dube
, Sharon Forzley
, zelda dwyer
, Cheryl Johnson
, Dana Francoeur
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Chris Lantz
, Yolanda Ridge
, Hilary Jenkins
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Shannan Sword
, Kartik Gupta
, Shawna Moodie
, Nicki D'Angelo
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Roland Schigas
, Heather More
, Nicholas Graham
, Denica StP
, Ashlee Blais
, Anneka Chambers
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Martine Fabris
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Hayley Chandler
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Sara Conway
, Mary Woods
, Catherine Young
, Charlotte Gray
, Michael Edwards
, Jessica Trento
, Meghan Barton
, Tiffany C
, Pam Keetch
, Melinda Poth
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Thelma Ball
, Paula Adam
, Shannon Lee
, Benita Hartwell
, Mary-Dale Taylor
, Damen Rae
, Lisa Goebel
, Rodney Cross
, Vanessa Seto
, jen Black
, Kym Marsh
, Samantha Read
, diana kirkwood
, Lisa Mallia
, Catherine Westerberg
, Kim Wiggins
, Wendy Vigh
, toni velthuis
, Ken Gilmour
, Linda Leitch
, Paula Ritchie
, Sarah McComb
, Claire Gear
, Cherryl Koylass
, Kristen Nikola
, Rosa Cross
, Joseph Chirayil
, Stephanie Trotter
, Kristen Bach
, Hoda Montazeri
, Mitchell Schmidt
, Barbara Leckie
, Christopher Evans
, Madelyn Brittain
, Morgan Stewart
, Faaria Samnani
, Russell Reitsema
, Joe Mitchell
, Mariah Davey
, Elmira Olson
, Augustine Mudzudza
, Christine McNair
, Melissa Poremba
, Tanya Blake
, Chris Carvalho
, Sonia Navvuru
, Danielle Pigeau
, Kim Cappellina
, Bianca Jeannotte
, Corinna Misson
, Lisa Richardson
, C. Ray
, colleen coco collins
, Helen Tubrett
, Catherine Booker
, Taryn Hubbard
, Joe Titone
, Andrea Gillespie
, Patricia Scott
, Laura Patterson
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Andrea Mack
, Rachel Edmonds
, Randi Ann Doll
, Michelle Canfield
, Margaret McKay
, Debbie Youngman
, Lori Campbell
, Emily Johansen
, Meaghan Krygier
, Lindsey Andronak
, Julie Kaniak
, Lori Bardell
, Tanis Anne
, Barbara Nickerson
, Lynn Bechtel
, Pat Johnston
, Charles Leblanc
, Jacqueline Chenier
, Sandra Lackie
, Janice Cournoyer
, Michelle Arsenault
, P. Thompson
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A memoir about abandoning an exhausting commuter lifestyle to move to a cabin in the woods, embracing imperfection while cultivating a life of care for self and nature.
Alice Irene Whittaker was addicted to productivity, perfectionism, and discipline. She was used to rushing between multiple jobs, her demanding ballet training, and volunteering for social justice causes, making sure that every single moment of her day was accounted for. But then she finds herself as a new mother, commuting four hours a day into the city and exhausted by the state of the world and paralyzed by climate guilt and anxiety. Something has got to give. Overnight, Alice Irene and her husband decide to retreat to a cabin in the woods, in search of a new kind of life.
Surrounded by creek, meadow, and forest, Alice Irene begins a new lifelong journey of repairing her fractured relationship with both herself and the natural world. Dismantling a history of anorexia, obsessiveness, and workaholism, she decides to stop taking and start caretaking. She asks herself, "How can I take care of the Earth if I don't know how to take care of myself?"
Her quest takes her to meet a renowned economist-rancher in Colorado, to stand at the side of a runway at a sustainable fashion show in Portland, and to witness firsthand rewilding of wolves in Yellowstone. She interviews and learns from dozens of people who are building homes, growing food, making clothes, raising families, and living their lives in regenerative ways.
Braiding together her personal journey with the stories of others who are tending to the Earth, Alice Irene Whittaker has crafted a lyrical, relatable memoir about regeneration and moving from a life of despair to a life of care. Searching for the spaces between the sorrow of wildfires and the beauty of wildflowers, Homing is about returning home to our bodies, geographies, communities, and place, all as a part of nature.
