Paper Blogging is the Attention Cottage of writer, artist, and thinker, Michelle Geffken.

Nature artist, home educator. Collector of vintage typewriters.

Michelle has also overcome several chronic health conditions, is currently thinking through issues of childhood trauma, and has found a way to live a creative life, learning to speak up.

You are allowed to thrive amid the debris of difficulty.

What that means is where she's heading. Come along for the ride?

  • In search of rest from the melee of information online?

  • A wise path, threaded between digital and analog?

  • Can we ever recover our attention?

The Beginning of the Rest of the Story

Stories

As well as home-educating her six kids from K to college entrance, Michelle ran a used book business for a decade and built a home library that is never quite finished or all shelved. Before having kids, she was a Braille transcriber at The National Braille Press in Boston. Though sighted, Michelle does read Braille: ironic, since she almost lost her sight as a teen.

Also, as a teen, Michelle had the now utterly defunct job of Sub-Editor’s Night Runner at the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich, England. She was Young Cricket Writer of the Year. And, one memorable summer, crewed the Soviet Tall Ship Kruzenstern from Germany to Norway amid 280 Soviet sailors and wrote up her adventures in the local press.

Which of these stories will show up on a typewriter next?

Michelle’s articles and essays have appeared in anthologies, newspapers, and online.