A forum for intentional words by women on wildness, wilderness and outdoor adventure.
You've probably heard that this summer marks the hundredth birthday of the U.S. National Parks. You've seen commemorative books, read about celebrities' favorite park picks, and followed social media campaigns urging you to "Find Your Park." But they've spun it wrong, or at least misleadingly. This is not the parks' anniversary year; the earliest …
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 there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Loren Eiseley Yuval Noah Harari, the author of ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’, has said there is evidence that human brains are shrinking over large expanses of time because we need to remember less in order to survive. We look forward and …
We strive for polish--then life creeps in, smudges the words. Truthifies 'em. I write from the heat of an urban midsummer, dry in the fount and muggy in the eyes, sapped and taxed by the living so far away from the places, people, mountains, deserts, and waters who sustain me. There was a place, a …
2016 Blog July 2 “The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we …
Writing the Wild 