A number of books have been written about the Rainbow Gathering either directly or indirectly. The most recent (yes even newer than my book, Falling From The Moon) is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. Not sure I’m Read more…
Join bird lovers, ocean water enthusiasts, climate change activists, scientists, and many more as we celebrate the salt marshes at the northern end of San Diego’s Mission Bay Park. Join the Friends of Rose Creek as we lead Bird Watching Bingo groups along the Rose Read more…
Last weekend, I attended the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (PGIAA) annual reunion at the amazing Ladera Lane Campus, which if you did not know is an old Jesuit monastery in the hills of Montecito/Santa Barbara/Caprinteria in California. The grounds are filled with old growth Read more…
I completed my doctorate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology while working full time and caring for a disabled parent who required 24-hour assistance. Needless to say it was hard and I was tired. My dissertation looked at how using mythic Read more…
Falling From the Moon is the most authentic counterculture novel since Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Her story of two women with different quests colliding at a counterculture gathering explores today’s alternative values in a setting that has never before Read more…
A search for a lost parent; a journey through a world that is close to many of us but seen by few; a bonding of women through the difficult circumstances of life. All of it moving along to the beat of a thousand drums offered Read more…
Coming Home 2020 is my Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association annual reunion. I will be part of the Author Spotlight on the evening of January 18, 2020 with amazing authors like Hendrika De Vries, Edward M. Smink, Ph.D. and many more. They made a brief Read more…
Karin Zirk’s new first novel, Falling From the Moon, kept me engaged from first to last page. She poetically explores two characters, Lauren and Sapphire, when they both attend a Gathering in Plumas National Forest in California, a mini-Woodstock, for two weeks. There both wrestle Read more…
I fell in love with FALLING FROM THE MOON. Karin Zirk’s novel has everything I want in a good read: compelling characters, an exotic setting, a story that keeps me turning pages and writing that bids me linger to savor the language. Set against the Read more…
Falling from the Moon is more than a tale of a Sapphire, a woman endeavoring on a quest to find her long-lost father while ultimately discovering herself. The true star of this book is the canvas upon which the story is drawn. Author Karin Zirk Read more…