Background
Mermer Blakeslee was born, raised, and still lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York, United States.
Mermer Blakeslee
Blakeslee also works as ski consultant.
(Margaret Becker, a single mother surviving on food stamps...)
Margaret Becker, a single mother surviving on food stamps in the backwoods of the Catskill Mountains, reinvigorates her life through the adoption of an extended family.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395486017/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(In 1958, in a small town in upstate New York, the Buell f...)
In 1958, in a small town in upstate New York, the Buell family is falling apart. The sudden death of David, the only son, forever changes the bonds that connect them to one another and to the world. This is the story of Dorrie Buell, an intensely perceptive girl, trying to find her place in this charged, unpredictable landscape.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345417771/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(A renowned ski instructor, poet, and novelist presents pr...)
A renowned ski instructor, poet, and novelist presents proven techniques for transforming fears into positive energy by showing how the mind, body, and spirit can work together to promote trust and affirmative action, which will help us to rejuvenate our lives and unleash the power of surrender to live in the moment.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525946381/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(It is the fictional story of a Catskill Mountains valley ...)
It is the fictional story of a Catskill Mountains valley community soon to be flooded to create a reservoir for New York City. The drama centers on a farmer whose wife dies in childbirth and on the farmer's fifteen-year-old niece who comes to take care of the baby in exchange for the promise of college tuition.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0091MWC4A/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(“We all pack different ideas and feelings into the word f...)
“We all pack different ideas and feelings into the word fear: fear of the unknown, fear of failure, of losing control, of aging, of falling down, fear of the body reacting and fear of the body not reacting, even the fear of saying the word fear..."
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAJA03Y/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Mermer Blakeslee was born, raised, and still lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York, United States.
Mermer studied at Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont where she ski-raced on a national level.
Mermer Blakeslee leads many lives, as a writer, skier, and teacher. She has published three novels, Same Blood, In Dark Water, and When You Live by a River. She also wrote some poetry and her poems have been published in the Paterson Literary Review, Heliotrope, and Narrative. Two were finalists in Narrative’s annual poetry contests. Her non-fiction book, In the Yikes! Zone emerged from her work with ski students over the past thirty years. It has recently been reissued in paperback and e-book as A Conversation with Fear.
Mermer started started teaching skiing in 1979, and in 1987, became an examiner for the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) to train and certify ski teachers throughout the east. In 1996, she earned a spot on the PSIA National Demonstration Team, an elite team which spearheads the development and direction of ski teaching in America and represents American skiing internationally. She has lectured at PSIA’s National Academies and National Women’s Seminars, and the National Ski Patrol’s annual conventions. Mermer uses skiing as a metaphor to elucidate the philosophy and strategies she’s developed about fear, learning, and innovation.
As an examiner and former member of the National Demo Team, Mermer still travels across the northeast to train ski teachers and examiners, and each spring she serves as the guest coach at the Women’s Camp in Snowbird, Utah. But she especially loves teaching at Windham.
(A renowned ski instructor, poet, and novelist presents pr...)
2002(“We all pack different ideas and feelings into the word f...)
2016(Margaret Becker, a single mother surviving on food stamps...)
1989(It is the fictional story of a Catskill Mountains valley ...)
2012(In 1958, in a small town in upstate New York, the Buell f...)
1998
