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• Outdoor trudging as career builder: my interview with Mentors Collective March 19, 2025
• Solo hiking as personal growth: me on Vision Pros podcast February 14, 2025
• Short fiction debut November 13, 2024
• The ever moving river of ideas November 6, 2024
• Book Talk October 15 at Bank Square Books August 20, 2024
• I’ll be on Hiker Trash Radio June 3 May 15, 2024
• Going Over the Mountain reading at Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore October 14, 2023
• Launch party on September 10 at Breakwater Books. Reading September 13 at the Norwich Bookstore in Vermont May 23, 2023
• Health reporting that made a difference March 1, 2023
• Morning person? No. Night owl. December 30, 2022
• Writing below a mountain October 31, 2022
• New fiction in next year’s Running Wild Press Anthology September 20, 2022
• Update, early spring 2022 April 24, 2022
• November 23, 2021
• Symbols in a personal history July 26, 2021
• From endurance to hope June 25, 2021
• Tuesday, April 20: How to start a freelance career, 5-6 p.m. April 17, 2021
• Beginning my visiting professor year at UConn August 31, 2020
• Appalachia’s Accidents report here. Click on link at the bottom. June 25, 2020
• Testing Poop is the Future May 27, 2020
• Manage public outdoor spaces the way we manage grocery stores: like essential spaces that should never close April 8, 2020
• Mountains in a pandemic: a call for submissions March 26, 2020
• Announcing a one-day Writing from Nature workshop on February 15 January 2, 2020
• The clattering-of-feet landscape December 13, 2019
• Remembering a rescue effort November 9, 2019
• Sewage Overflows: Legal but Tainted October 4, 2019
• The archives of my mountain childhood June 25, 2019
• Spring bursts out May 19, 2019
• Raining in Arizona May 7, 2019
• Shoulder season April 1, 2019
• Seven-hour Writing from Nature workshop March 30 January 29, 2019
• Fear of rattlesnakes January 27, 2019
• The latest November 20, 2018
• Wet, wet, wet October 29, 2018
• Birds on the Flint River October 5, 2018
• SUN Award Day, yay for tutoring writers October 4, 2018
• Rock path August 31, 2018
• How not to make money: ice-cream vending tales August 20, 2018
• Mold concerns rise with the sea level August 15, 2018
• Packing up our mother’s things July 16, 2018
• Wilderness writing June 10, 2018
• Mountain safety stories, two talks this summer May 28, 2018
• Possum, passim May 11, 2018
• A quick lesson from a musk ox May 2, 2018
• Searching for a Lyme disease test February 22, 2018
• Moments frozen in memory February 9, 2018
• Spontaneous survival projects January 25, 2018
• 19 inches December 19, 2017
• Do we change, how much do we change, and does it show in our writing? October 14, 2017
• Gas wells meet wilderness October 9, 2017
• Step forward onto the land: starting new writing September 14, 2017
• Ideas come from trees September 6, 2017
• Studies! August 24, 2017
• On paperback prefaces June 16, 2017
• The link between walking and creativity May 15, 2017
• Appearances for Libertarians on the Prairie May 8, 2017
• Danbury, Connecticut and the Little House books April 5, 2017
• Procrastination no more March 23, 2017
• A misbehaving horse’s lesson December 21, 2016
• Laura Ingalls Wilder as a Voter November 17, 2016
• Testimonials on Writing from Nature workshop September 5, 2016
• Writing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s pioneer life August 30, 2016
• Libertarians on the Prairie Coming Soon July 20, 2016
• Long 91-Mile Trail July 15, 2016
• A slim biography of masterful storytelling June 2, 2016
• Nature and the Ghosts of Thinkers May 22, 2016
• Observing without a notebook or cell phone May 1, 2016
• Why I started a writing workshop, and what happened when I did March 3, 2016
• Squatter farmers of long ago February 25, 2016
• Fog, night, fear, and writing ideas January 22, 2016
• “Writers from the natural world” January 5, 2016
• My favorite bits on what the holidays should really mean December 17, 2015
• Book is in to the publisher December 2, 2015
• Sunday afternoon thoughts September 27, 2015
• Retreat over, have emerged September 15, 2015
• Back from the Mountains August 21, 2015
• Laura Ingalls Wilder devotees follow details July 16, 2015
• A Field Guide to a Morning June 29, 2015
• Writing From Nature, a wonderful first year June 14, 2015
• Meet the Appalachia writers: Elissa Ely June 1, 2015
• Getting ready to find new ideas March 24, 2015
• Laura Ingalls Wilder died on this day in 1957 February 10, 2015
• Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday February 8, 2015
• Announcing the keynote speaker at my June writing workshop February 2, 2015
• New Hampshire circuit December 30, 2014
• Laura Ingalls Wilder’s memoirs, and what they reveal December 27, 2014
• Testimonials from my writing students December 9, 2014
• Looking Back on the Outdoor Season November 12, 2014
• Writing From Nature: Sneak Peek, June 12-14, 2015 October 7, 2014
• The dark side of the Little House author August 21, 2014
• Iowa and Wisconsin July 31, 2014
• Save the date: Writing from the natural world, June 12-14, 2015 June 13, 2014
• My AT thru-hike May 5, 2014
• 80 years since the Dust Bowl’s horrible drought March 31, 2014
• Daylight acceleration time March 6, 2014
• Olympic hosts reject American yogurt February 14, 2014
• Coastal towns cope with rising sea January 15, 2014
• New work update December 30, 2013
• November in Crawford Notch November 15, 2013
• Open Letter to Libertarians October 28, 2013
• Woodlands: 76 Years of a Powerful Little Magazine October 14, 2013
• Raising roads for rising seas September 30, 2013
• Desk work, late summer August 22, 2013
• Little Libertarians on the Prairie August 15, 2013
• Watch for my story about Little House books in Boston Globe August 9, 2013
• Mountains, a place to find what matters July 15, 2013
• Metcalf Institute science immersion fellowship marks 15 years June 9, 2013
• Fan mail May 8, 2013
• The Power of Narrative April 6, 2013
• When missing letters influence scholars March 25, 2013
• History of Daylight Saving Time March 10, 2013
• Communication blackout 3: the submerged cell phone February 28, 2013
• Communication blackout 2 January 25, 2013
• Communication blackout: first in a series January 20, 2013
• Happy 2013 December 31, 2012
• Not for the holiday wreath November 21, 2012
• Climate change makes it into acceptance speech November 7, 2012
• Full moon over flooding river October 29, 2012
• Lubbock, Texas October 18, 2012
• Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike Memory September 26, 2012
• Groundbreaking without realizing it September 12, 2012
• Actor’s Kilimanjaro quest, etc. August 21, 2012
• Alaska anyone? August 10, 2012
• Somewhere new July 22, 2012
• From a reader of Energy Independence July 14, 2012
• It’s all fine for them. They wear ear protection. July 9, 2012
• Back on the ridges, three days July 2, 2012
• Don’t take the train. That’s a certain train line’s slogan June 21, 2012
• Moody skies over Pattagansett River June 4, 2012
• Races May 21, 2012
• Crediting sources May 16, 2012
• Waterman Fund annual dinner April 15, 2012
• Shrinking Glaciers April 13, 2012
• R.I.P. Peter B. Lord April 9, 2012
• A tribute to environmental writer Peter Lord March 30, 2012
• Salaries March 26, 2012
• The narrower, yet expanding, environment beat March 16, 2012
• The wilderness narrative March 13, 2012
• Water scientist leaked conservative institute documents February 21, 2012
• Little House writing process, redux January 20, 2012
• Shutting off the lights at work January 10, 2012
• Low snow year (not counting October) January 3, 2012
• What to do with the card I sent December 27, 2011
• Car, Plane, or Train? December 14, 2011
• Most Significant: How Long They Stayed November 15, 2011
• Top strange facts learned in Miami October 23, 2011
• Rest stops close and cars clog mountain lots October 11, 2011
• Nipmuck Trail Marathon October 2, 2011
• R.I.P., Bill Hamilton September 16, 2011
• Makeup doesn’t matter August 25, 2011
• My talk on straight-up trails August 22, 2011
• Citizen heroes in Berlin, NH August 19, 2011
• Straight up trails in NH and CT August 6, 2011
• Buy food from farmers July 27, 2011
• Wilds of My Home State July 24, 2011
• A forgotten book July 21, 2011
• Couch potatoes blame potatoes July 12, 2011
• Four Miles Not Beers July 4, 2011
• Crashing an author’s dinner June 24, 2011
• Big skies of Iowa June 21, 2011
• Appalachian Trail reunions June 14, 2011
• Where that balloon ends up May 28, 2011
• Think Globally, Rain Locally May 24, 2011
• Our neighborhood inspiration, Joan Brainard May 4, 2011
• Dropping everything to visit your daughter April 29, 2011
• Connecticut gobbling power at home April 21, 2011
• She browsed the newsstand and found… April 4, 2011
• Extreme weather March 23, 2011
• Social scientists with the hot potato of climate change March 8, 2011
• Think Norwegian February 5, 2011
• Obama says end oil subsidies January 25, 2011
• Wikipedia, the People’s Misinformation January 17, 2011
• NYC’s underground, as inspiring as Everest January 5, 2011
• 1920 or 2010? December 27, 2010
• Thoughts on consumption, part 2 December 9, 2010
• Thoughts on consumption November 23, 2010
• Junk from the past, all part of trail work November 12, 2010
• The last sunset, sort of November 6, 2010
• Free water October 26, 2010
• A mountain next to your town October 15, 2010
• Legs begin to move, thoughts begin to flow September 21, 2010
• The mountain I said I would never climb August 23, 2010
• A set of expectations punishing to women August 10, 2010
• What ignites the outdoor passion of the next generation? July 23, 2010
• Flooded swimming area July 15, 2010
• Sign at restored prairie, Coralville Lake, Iowa July 10, 2010
• Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Dandelion Wine July 7, 2010
• Selling the new book at Chester Market, June 27 June 16, 2010
• Heading back to the prairie May 11, 2010
• Occupational necessity April 11, 2010
• Increase our climate change IQ March 22, 2010
• Money, Money, Money March 9, 2010
• Majority of 1,001 surveyed say they want to conserve energy but don’t February 17, 2010
• Kleen Energy, 2 Days Later February 9, 2010
• The price of electricity from solar power January 10, 2010
• Dogs January 8, 2010
• People Using Less Oil December 31, 2009
• Against Keeping Chickens December 21, 2009
• Flannery O’Connor December 18, 2009
• The Neglect of Obituaries December 17, 2009
• Buildings Scattered in the Green Spaces December 4, 2009