Saturday, August 25, 2007At the still point... Over twenty years ago, I wrote a story about a woman who wakes up one day, quits her job, and takes off to Billings, Montana (because that's the destination for the father and son in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.") Yesterday, I packed up my office, packed up a van, and did much the same thing. The idea for the trip started off as life imitating art (although I could never have orchestrated, consciously, the fact that I'd be leaving my job on the same day as the road trip began). I am deep into the updated version of the book, and the purpose of this trip is mainly to gather some firsthand info about what exactly this part of the country looks like. So now art is going to start getting some serious feedback in turn. For anyone who has been missing these blogs, my heartfelt apologies. I am working on the book in any spare moment and the blogs seem to only come on me when I'm out of town. Right now, however, my life is packed up, my work is in transition and my home here in this hotel room with my kids. There is only the now to concern myself about. I hope to share as we go along. # posted by Katherine Doughtie Nolan @ 7:05 AM  
Comments: Wow. Billings. Cool. I want to go, but the time is not yet. I'm currently reading through a whole bunch of letters (dated mostly 1916-1925, but stretching forward and back from 1910-1944), many of which were written from Billings. That's where my grandmother grew up, and her mother wrote her regularly (weekly) in great detail. So I get clippings of the Billings Gazette and other local news and gossip from a long ways back. Have a faboo time. I hope, in due course, to make a trek there myself! # posted by  Susan K : 9:47 PM
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