by Chris Woodside | 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...
by Chris Woodside | 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...
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...
