Magazine Articles
Daylight Acceleration Time
Appalachia journal In the mountains, daylight saving time diminishes into the economic gimmick it truly is WHILE HIKING THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I settled into an odd sleeping pattern. I would fall into the sleeping bag soon after sunset after my...
Alone with Wolves
From a distance, a camera crew captured Gudrun Pflueger's encounter with coast wolves. MATTHEY FILMS written for Appalachia journal Gudrun Pflueger believes that a buried instinct to handle predators saved her in a wilderness meadow Gudrun Pflueger sat alone in a...
What Did You Say?
written for Woman's Day It took me years to admit I had a hearing problem. Don’t make the same mistake. I BEGAN using hearing aids in both ears two years ago, just before my 44th birthday and 15 years after a doctor first recommended I get them. My hearing had...
The Trail Pioneers
The Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails as shown in the Connecticut Walk Book, 1940. CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION written for Connecticut Woodlands In December 1929, a handful of professional men who loved hiking began building the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails in...
A River Reborn
My landscape: Connecticut River in Deep River written for River and Shore It’s early June on the Connecticut River and the sun is blazing just above the tree fringe of Selden Island on the far bank. The glitter on the water is so bright I have to write with one eye...
