Shoulder season

Shoulder season

by | Apr 1, 2019 | Get This

I waved away gnats, an instinct I haven’t practiced since last October. I stepped over dried mud and looked at the sticks that would offer forth raspberries in a few months. Cataclysm has visited my life with the death of my mother last week from an unexpected,...
Seven-hour Writing from Nature workshop March 30

Seven-hour Writing from Nature workshop March 30

by | Jan 29, 2019 | Get This

Bushy Hill Lake knows more about the past than we might think. Once upon a time, it trickled as a stream at the bottom of this valley. Such changes offer a writer stories and symbols. (Pioneer Village end of the lake, mid-January 2019.) I am offering a seven-hour...
Fear of rattlesnakes

Fear of rattlesnakes

by | Jan 27, 2019 | Get This, Magazine Articles

Biologist Tom Tyning scrambles up a ledge in Massachusetts, looking for rattlesnakes he will study in his lab and then return to the wild. The snakes are rare because poachers steal them and sell them illegally. (Photo by Christine Woodside) From Appalachia...
The latest

The latest

by | Nov 20, 2018 | Get This

  I’m working on: — a project for my master’s degree from Arizona State University about farming in southern New Jersey in a place most people didn’t know exists. — a story about plastic pieces in food, water, and marine animals....
Wet, wet, wet

Wet, wet, wet

by | Oct 29, 2018 | Get This

  Saturday afternoon my husband and I walked by the town landing in Deep River, Connecticut. High tide had encountered more rain. Two rowboats normally overturned and chained to driftwood on a small beach now bobbed like lost flotsam. Sloshy waves lapped at a...
Birds on the Flint River

Birds on the Flint River

by | Oct 5, 2018 | Get This

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ROBERT WILSON LYND, The Blue Lion and Other Essays Here in Flint, Michigan, where the public water supply’s lead levels...