This Little Light of Mine

This Little Light of Mine

by | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles

written for Audubon They’re brighter, cheaper in the long run, and fit most fixtures. Plus compact fluorescents can be a force in fighting global warming. So what are you waiting for? If you’ve visited a home improvement or discount store lately, maybe you noticed...
Alone with Wolves

Alone with Wolves

by | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles

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...
What We Think We Want

What We Think We Want

by | Dec 22, 2009 | Magazine Articles

The pamphlet my husband found at the dump written for New England Watershed Attitudes toward housing in the 1950s—and nowSeveral years ago, I was assigned to write a newspaper article about a kitchen tour in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The best kitchen of the day was at...
Against Keeping Chickens

Against Keeping Chickens

by | Dec 21, 2009 | Get This

On my chest of drawers sits a stuffed chick. My daughter gave it to me to fulfill my desire to keep chickens, because my family has urged me not to take this on. The realities of raising actual chicks to laying hens would require starting with 40 or so chicks, cooking...