A forum for intentional words by women on wildness, wilderness and outdoor adventure.
Every year for the last four years my girlfriends and I have gone on a week-long hiking and pie-eating adventure in Glacier National Park. That first year it was smoke from several fires burning in and around Yellowstone that inspired Vicki and I to join Diane and Mel on their Glacier adventure. We had so …
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A year ago last August Hilary, Julianne, and I began Writing the Wild. A year at the start seems like a long time. At the end, though, after the earth has made another revolution around the sun, and we’ve reveled in the colors of autumn, skied our way through winter, sloshed around in spring's never-ending puddles, …
“If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.” Alice Walker A year ago one of my editors assigned me a story for their 2016 fall issue. It was to write a profile on …
“A man on foot, on horseback or on bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.” Edward Abbey -- Desert Solitaire I wanted to love Grand Canyon National Park but true confession, I did not. To write these words feels blasphemous. I believe …
How honest can I be? How much am I willing to reveal on the page? I’m not really sure, but these are questions every writer needs to ask herself. Real honesty makes one cringe a bit and I’ve had more than a few uncomfortable, cringe-worthy feelings lately. At 5:55 am last Thursday John and I …
Writing the Wild 