Yep. As of 2021 I thought I was going to spend my twilight years coasting to the finish, but it looks like the Universe has different plans for all of us, right? Thank you again: your guts and clarity help.
Just to let you know, our public library system in western Canada has four copies circulating, and four on order. And there is a waiting list of people waiting for the book. Not long like a James Patterson book, but still a waiting list, up here, in Canada. I did buy my own copy anyway, to support you, for my own reading pleasure, and to have it to loan out. Keep writing! We need you.
This update is very inspiriting and I couldn't be happier to know of your Best Seller status. 🙌 I hope you're able to squeeze in more extracurricular activities while on the book tour. Your pictures along with the storied information is a real bonus for road trip enthusiasts like myself. Thank you Sarah!
Congratulations Sarah! I just got mine in Toronto. Saving it for reading at the cottage in Northern Ontario when I have a chunk of time, and I want to be out of the city. I am recommending to everyone i know.
Enjoying seeing you at Powell's in beautiful Portland OR. Thanks for coming. I was wondering if you had some free time to see some of the magnificent NW. It looks like you did and that you're having a successful tour. I'm happy for your success!
Thank you! The tour has been the highlight of my year -- mostly because I got to meet my readers, which means a LOT to me, but also because I got to visit a part of the country that I barely know and really love from the little I've seen.
Thank you for the interesting mini travelogue and the links. I'm curious as to whether you take any precaution to not catch/ transmit SarsCoV2 or other airborne bugs at any portion of your tour. Safe travels!
I spend as little time indoors in crowded spaces as possible. That's been true for me since 2020. If you look through the archives of my articles, you'll notice the bulk of my photos are outside, or inside with very few people -- often I'm alone. So this whole situation is very unusual and anomalous for me. I mask in dense areas with the exception of the actual tour venues, and test before and afterwards. I prefer events that are outdoors and wish all indoor spaces would upgrade their air circulation quality.
I'm so sorry you have long covid. I'm enormously frustrated with the lack of research and treatment for you and others. I have no problem masking up and signing books outdoors for anyone who wants to skip the indoor signing line at events because they don't want to get too close to a crowd. I don't want folks to feel left out so if anyone reading this needs that accommodation, I'll do it.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate this. I am one of the lucky ones, I have a supportive spouse and have been improving very very slowly after spending tons of money on experimental treatments. All of us should be getting help though. Since we're not, it brings to mind what you always say about the regime desensitizing people to mass death--ugh!
Thank you for answering my question and for doing so in a candid if a bit defensive way. I did not mean to put you on the spot. I meant to learn what to expect at your event. On your previous tour, your event was advertised as requiring masks and vaccines, at a time such precautions were rapidly disappearing, and that made me feel safe and very glad to sign up. To my surprise, the vast majority at the event were not masked, including the staff that checked us in, who did not want to see our vaccine cards. I was seated right next to a bunch of unmasked folks in a packed room.
I wish I understood how it makes sense to not mask when one can, given all we know about SarsCoV2, incl. its oncogenic nature, how it can (and still does) cause a vast array of disability, death, and the fact that there's no cure just some imperfect vaccines with low uptake and treatments that may or may not work.
So thanks for the offer of partial accommodation but I'll pass. There are still some mask required events, you have a strong voice (in every sense) and could be a positive role model in this area too.
I'm way behind on most aspects of life these days, so just now reading this. It's wonderful that your book is doing so well--congratulations! I'm glad you made it to the western part of WA/OR--there's really nothing quite like the Pacific. My husband and I took a road trip down Highway 101 from WA to California 40+ years ago in our little olive green pickup, and it was magical. I'm so glad we have those memories. I know people who have recreated similar journeys, and they report that much has changed. I completely understand why you wanted your children to see our country while they could. Be well, and thank you, Sarah.
You were so right, unfortunately, about the needs for this road trip. Including the parks part - monuments I think they are often called down there. (I’m in Canada). I just read that Interior Department geologists are poring over maps of some of the monuments to evaluate for mining and oil production - with a sight to re-doing boundaries. When you started talking about taking your children on these road trips - before the places are lost, I didn’t get it. It’s nature, it’s big, it’s outdoors I thought. How wrong I was. How right you were/are. I imagine you didn’t want to be right. You tried so hard to stop this from happening.
It hurts my heart so much to read about their plans for the parks that I can hardly take it. I hope Americans rally together and prevent it. This is something we can all work to protect, something that transcends other differences we may have.
Your book was the perfect accompaniment for our spring break drive to and from Buffalo, a trip that should take 6 hours one way from Western MA, but takes us 9 with frequent rest stops. Have you ever been there? We attended the Dyngus Day parade in the pouring rain, thinking "This is a peak Sarah Kendzior experience." No merch, no tourist traps, just local Polish people celebrating unique-to-Buffalo traditions like Easter lambs made out of butter.
I'm a paid subscriber and I recommend you to friends & fellow Resisters.
As always, Sarah: I thank you for your courage, your eloquence, and your dogged dedication. You give the rest of us strength to keep on keeping on.
Thank you very much! I appreciate that as I'm extremely tired right now
Yep. As of 2021 I thought I was going to spend my twilight years coasting to the finish, but it looks like the Universe has different plans for all of us, right? Thank you again: your guts and clarity help.
Congratulations! As we know, awareness is valuable. Keep up the great work!
JVG
Thanks!
Just to let you know, our public library system in western Canada has four copies circulating, and four on order. And there is a waiting list of people waiting for the book. Not long like a James Patterson book, but still a waiting list, up here, in Canada. I did buy my own copy anyway, to support you, for my own reading pleasure, and to have it to loan out. Keep writing! We need you.
That’s great, thanks for letting me know!
As I have read Sarah, I took her advice to meet the people instead of the ideas. It makes a difference.
This update is very inspiriting and I couldn't be happier to know of your Best Seller status. 🙌 I hope you're able to squeeze in more extracurricular activities while on the book tour. Your pictures along with the storied information is a real bonus for road trip enthusiasts like myself. Thank you Sarah!
Thanks!
You deserve it. Enjoying the book very much!
Thank you!
Congratulations Sarah! I just got mine in Toronto. Saving it for reading at the cottage in Northern Ontario when I have a chunk of time, and I want to be out of the city. I am recommending to everyone i know.
Thank you!
Sounds like you are enjoying the tour and getting to see new things. The book is awesome. 💕💕
Thanks!
Just received my PR in Canada and living in Vancouver BC. Not that different from my home in Seattle and yet SO different. Come visit.
Enjoying seeing you at Powell's in beautiful Portland OR. Thanks for coming. I was wondering if you had some free time to see some of the magnificent NW. It looks like you did and that you're having a successful tour. I'm happy for your success!
Thank you! The tour has been the highlight of my year -- mostly because I got to meet my readers, which means a LOT to me, but also because I got to visit a part of the country that I barely know and really love from the little I've seen.
Yay! Recommended you again to the Clinton Library when asked for speaker suggestions. 🤞🏼 Hope to see you in Little Rock!
Thanks, that would be great!
Thank you for the interesting mini travelogue and the links. I'm curious as to whether you take any precaution to not catch/ transmit SarsCoV2 or other airborne bugs at any portion of your tour. Safe travels!
I spend as little time indoors in crowded spaces as possible. That's been true for me since 2020. If you look through the archives of my articles, you'll notice the bulk of my photos are outside, or inside with very few people -- often I'm alone. So this whole situation is very unusual and anomalous for me. I mask in dense areas with the exception of the actual tour venues, and test before and afterwards. I prefer events that are outdoors and wish all indoor spaces would upgrade their air circulation quality.
As a Long Covid Haver it makes me happy to hear you are taking care with the rogue aerosols
I'm so sorry you have long covid. I'm enormously frustrated with the lack of research and treatment for you and others. I have no problem masking up and signing books outdoors for anyone who wants to skip the indoor signing line at events because they don't want to get too close to a crowd. I don't want folks to feel left out so if anyone reading this needs that accommodation, I'll do it.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate this. I am one of the lucky ones, I have a supportive spouse and have been improving very very slowly after spending tons of money on experimental treatments. All of us should be getting help though. Since we're not, it brings to mind what you always say about the regime desensitizing people to mass death--ugh!
Thank you for answering my question and for doing so in a candid if a bit defensive way. I did not mean to put you on the spot. I meant to learn what to expect at your event. On your previous tour, your event was advertised as requiring masks and vaccines, at a time such precautions were rapidly disappearing, and that made me feel safe and very glad to sign up. To my surprise, the vast majority at the event were not masked, including the staff that checked us in, who did not want to see our vaccine cards. I was seated right next to a bunch of unmasked folks in a packed room.
I wish I understood how it makes sense to not mask when one can, given all we know about SarsCoV2, incl. its oncogenic nature, how it can (and still does) cause a vast array of disability, death, and the fact that there's no cure just some imperfect vaccines with low uptake and treatments that may or may not work.
So thanks for the offer of partial accommodation but I'll pass. There are still some mask required events, you have a strong voice (in every sense) and could be a positive role model in this area too.
I'm way behind on most aspects of life these days, so just now reading this. It's wonderful that your book is doing so well--congratulations! I'm glad you made it to the western part of WA/OR--there's really nothing quite like the Pacific. My husband and I took a road trip down Highway 101 from WA to California 40+ years ago in our little olive green pickup, and it was magical. I'm so glad we have those memories. I know people who have recreated similar journeys, and they report that much has changed. I completely understand why you wanted your children to see our country while they could. Be well, and thank you, Sarah.
Thank you very much!
You were so right, unfortunately, about the needs for this road trip. Including the parks part - monuments I think they are often called down there. (I’m in Canada). I just read that Interior Department geologists are poring over maps of some of the monuments to evaluate for mining and oil production - with a sight to re-doing boundaries. When you started talking about taking your children on these road trips - before the places are lost, I didn’t get it. It’s nature, it’s big, it’s outdoors I thought. How wrong I was. How right you were/are. I imagine you didn’t want to be right. You tried so hard to stop this from happening.
It hurts my heart so much to read about their plans for the parks that I can hardly take it. I hope Americans rally together and prevent it. This is something we can all work to protect, something that transcends other differences we may have.
I know you tried so hard to alert people to this, so it didn’t happen. I truly wish you the best that Americans can save these areas.
Your book was the perfect accompaniment for our spring break drive to and from Buffalo, a trip that should take 6 hours one way from Western MA, but takes us 9 with frequent rest stops. Have you ever been there? We attended the Dyngus Day parade in the pouring rain, thinking "This is a peak Sarah Kendzior experience." No merch, no tourist traps, just local Polish people celebrating unique-to-Buffalo traditions like Easter lambs made out of butter.
I haven't been but now I want to go! Thank you
I'm used to HOT tx beaches & cities, Visiting Oregon (during a Seattle HEAT Wave in August) was one of 'The Coolest' experiences of my so called life.