Lisa Alpine
writer
dancer
teacher
News flash: The Chilean Cliff Carver, has been selected for Travelers' Tales Best Travel Writing 2011 anthology with intro by Pico Iyer.  You can preorder at Amazon.
                    
Story time: 
Read Two Thumbs Up my latest story about hitchhiking with my son in New Zealand.
Another story I wrote recently is Rada's Bloom about a woman whose bed I shared a long time ago in Vienna. A woman with faded numbers tattooed on her inner forearm and how her memory lives on in my garden in California.

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You can read about her exotic escapes to Morocco, Fiji, Italy, Ireland—even Medford—in her Global Getaways column in Examiner.com

The most frequent question Lisa gets asked is: Where is your favorite place in all the countries you have visited? The answer to this question is on page 39 of her book Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts.


Writing projects she is currently working on include a story collection to raise money for the Marine Mammal Fund titled The Blue Eye: Encounters with Whales and Dolphins and an embellished historical nonfiction titled Wild Blood: Horse Thieves and Whores  about her renegade birth parents and their Gold Rush roots. On a completely different track, Journey Into Movement: Dancing Lessons From God, will be a book about the body-wisdom she has gleaned from twenty years of teaching dance as an ecstatic and healing art form.

Free Article Archives on Scribd:
The Living Spirit of Old-Growth Forests: Paying Respect to the Tall Straight People
The purpose of this story (which was first published 20 years ago  in Common Ground) is to anthropomorphize trees and deepen our relationship to the forest kingdom. I have woven together interviews with people as diverse as James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy; Leslie Gray, psychotherapist and shamanic healer....

Modern Day Explorers on the Shamanic Path
An interview with Tom Pinkson who is adept in the ways of plant medicines and an
initiated Huichol shaman dedicated to the "shamanic path."