Heather Lende (Author of If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name)

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Heather Lende

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Heather Lende and her husband Chip have five adult children and nine grandchildren. Heather is a hospice, library and radio station volunteer and served on the Haines Borough Assembly. She is the 2021-2023 Alaska State Writer Laureate, a former contributing editor at Woman's Day and a former columnist for the Anchorage Daily News. Her essays and commentary have been widely distributed. She has written over 400 obituaries for the Chilkat Valley News in Haines, AK and is the author of Of Ballots and Bears (2020) Find the Good (2015), Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs (2010), and NY Times bestseller, If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name (2005), all from Algonquin Books. She is happy to Zoom with book clubs. Heather is also the recipie ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 14,333 ratings · 2,141 reviews · 4 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name 3.73 avg rating — 6,213 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer 3.76 avg rating — 5,941 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska 3.88 avg rating — 1,534 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics 3.86 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cops and Rabbits

鈥淭here is joy in all鈥濃€� 聽from Welcome Morning, a poem by Anne Sexton.

First let鈥檚 get our bearings: 6:10 am. Light. 聽It鈥檚 raining, lightly, not much wind, the buds are greening, so is the seaweed and the grass. The tide is out and the river flats are full of ducks, geese and gulls. It鈥檚 noisy with birdsong and about 45 degrees. Low tide.

All is quiet, for now.

I had every intention of keeping you

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“People don鈥檛 gather after a death to mourn, but rather to reaffirm why life matters and to remember to exult in the only one we鈥檒l ever have. We hold funerals, memorials, celebrations鈥攚hatever you want to call them鈥攖o seek and to find the heart of the matter of this trip we call Life.”
― Heather Lende, Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

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“I wonder if to be human is to know that we can't ever banish pain and ugliness from the world, only learn from it and create something beautiful and good out of it ...”
― Heather Lende, Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska

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“I have a friend who says we spend the first half of our life building it and the second half preventing it from falling apart. I鈥檇 rather be under construction when I die.”
― Heather Lende, Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer

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