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Shelley Walchak is a librarian by trade and an angler at heart. In 2013, she fly-fished a river a week, blogged and wrote essays, hoping to inspire others. In 2014, she wrote a book about the adventure called 52 Rivers: A Woman's Fly Fishing Journey.

Fly fishing was a late life discovery for Walchak, but she intends to make up as much time as possible. Walchak was inspired to take her 52 Rivers journey after helping to organize a national library conference that embraced risk and reward. The conference so moved her that she had to take her own risk and give up her job at the Colorado State Library and go fishing for a year...anddid she ever reap rewards! She hopes her readers will do the same. ...more

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52 Rivers

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Flora in Crete

Before I left for Crete on September 15, I spent a great deal of my time gardening. I had a greenhouse built last fall – a long time dream – and I filled it with plants, some from long-time friend Marianne, who started her tomatoes in February. Florian made me three new raised beds – two outside the protection of a fence, and one within our fenced in area. I did everything I knew to bring the frui

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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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