If You’ve Never Birded, and Especially if You’re Stuck Somewhere You’d Rather Not Be
Lazuli bunting painting by Julie Costanzo. Reproduced with permission. Visit juliecostanzo.com (link below). [...]
Charles Baxter’s Advice for Aspiring Writers
Read a lot. Read until you find the things you love, because you [...]
Listen
The other day I got to sit at a large round table on [...]
Ethereal Art
I stumbled upon this chalk-art-in-progress yesterday evening at the northeast corner of [...]
Harebells and the Wilderness Act
I photographed these flowers on Lillian Ridge in Washington state’s Olympic Mountains a [...]
Clandestine Dinner in Ladder Company 12, Detroit
Can a nature-loving woman, with a penchant for getting grumpy about misguided land [...]
Diane Seuss’s Poem, “This is now”
There's nostalgia, which serious writers regularly lampoon, for good reasons, I suppose--'though I'm [...]
Foreign and Familiar: Meridith Ridl’s Alaska Series
Anthologies, like art galleries and wooded trails, invite exploration. I rarely read them [...]
Nigel Peake Walks and Draws the World’s Cities
I am fascinated by the wild world. I'm referring to the more-than-human parts [...]
Thirteen Things You Might Not Know About the Saugatuck Dunes in Winter
(After you've read my list, please add your own items as comments.) Freshly [...]