A New Nest

Grove Street on Sunday
Migration is the movement of people or animals to a new area or country in order to find better living conditions. It is about finding a new home. For me it is change and beginning a new life. Seven years ago I made that change. 

In 1984 the Mid-Atlantic, for work and a larger future in the publishing field. My boss a native NYER recommended me for a New York publishing sales position with Scribner, Athenaeum and Macmillan Publishing. It catapulted me to a city that I had already fallen in love with while working at the Baltimore Museum of Art. 

My early days in New York were filled with the joy of selling over 200 bookstores and great authors around to do signings. I did that with Montana author Ivan Doig and Virginia writers Ann Beattie and Mary Lee Settle.  I was able to keep Anne Rice supplied in Tab at a Village Dalton as she enthusiastically greeted the lines of adoring fans. My favorite authors are Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Bill Moyers and Reynolds Price.

Nature in the form of birds and butterflies as well as bighorn sheep and other mammals migrate. Birds migrate to find food and resources. Birds and mammals move to find better nesting locations. There are long and arduous migrations, medium migrations, and no migrations at all.   The red knot bird is an Alaskan shore bird which travels over 9,000 miles from the Arctic to the most southern tip of South America. But even with small distances, change can be daunting and challenging.

There is a play called the “Trip to Bountiful.” It involves a woman who lives with a daughter-in-law and son in a most unhappy situation. Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised. She eventually runs away and embarks by bus to her destination.

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