by Chris Woodside | 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...
by Chris Woodside | 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...
by Chris Woodside | Feb 10, 2015 | Get This
Laura signs copies of her books at Brown’s Bookstore in Springfield, Missouri, October 1952. As far as I know, this photo is not copyrighted but was a publicity shot for a newspaper. A few days ago, on February 7, the world—that is, Google, and Laura Ingalls...
by Chris Woodside | Feb 8, 2015 | Get This
Today’s Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 148th birthday, and Google’s Doodle took note. Americans are thinking about the pioneer author, and I know the time is ripening for my next book, Libertarians on the Prairie: The Creation of a Pioneer Myth, which I hope...
by Chris Woodside | Feb 2, 2015 | Get This
Mark Kramer Announcing the keynote speaker at my Writing from Nature workshop this June 12-14: Mark Kramer, narrative writer and teacher, director of Boston University’s The Power of Narrative writing conference, my writing workshop leader, and author of the...
by Chris Woodside | Dec 30, 2014 | Get This
Stream that feeds into Ammonoosuc Lake, Crawford North, NH I have just returned from the White Mountains of New Hampshire. My knee has been acting up, so I did not hike very much—just the Around-the-Lake Trail in Crawford Notch. I gave two evening talks, one at the...
