A Field Guide to a Morning

A Field Guide to a Morning

by | Jun 29, 2015 | Get This

Here I am with a pitch pine branch and cones, the bait lid, and birch bark. In my workshop, Writing from Nature, we spent one morning collecting. Collecting can mean picking up some things like pine cones, leaves, bark, or acorns or it can mean drawing or taking...
Writing From Nature, a wonderful first year

Writing From Nature, a wonderful first year

by | Jun 14, 2015 | Get This

Inside of birch log decomposed Writing From Nature has ended after a beautiful weekend on Squam Lake. Our group found new routes on and under Rattlesnake Mountain, wandered through fields and the forest, sat on the water, collected pine cones, wood, fern and other...
Meet the Appalachia writers: Elissa Ely

Meet the Appalachia writers: Elissa Ely

by | Jun 1, 2015 | Get This

Elissa Ely’s dog, Cooper, on Moosilauke A small white envelope hand-addressed to me appeared in the pile of bills and junk mail a few years ago. I opened it up and found a flowered card. It was from Dr. Elissa Ely, a Boston psychiatrist and writer. She has...
Little Libertarians on the Prairie

Little Libertarians on the Prairie

by | Mar 30, 2015 | Newspaper Articles

Illustration by Boris Kulikov for the Boston Globe The Boston Globe, August 11, 2013 A few months after the stock market crash, in the winter of 1930, Laura Ingalls Wilder sat at a small desk in Mansfield, Mo., and began writing down her life story in pencil. She had...
Getting ready to find new ideas

Getting ready to find new ideas

by | Mar 24, 2015 | Get This

Rock wall, Black Trail, Canfield Woods, Deep River, CT My best ideas for writing come when I carry no pen, pad, or recorder. I trudge up a muddy hill. I pick up a branch that fell in the path and fling it off into the leaves. The mud smells like minerals. I’m...