Ferry Lake, Teton Wilderness Breathe in. Step. Breathe out. Step. Repeat until I crawl my way to the top of the ridge. Sweat runs down my cheeks and between my breasts. I’m huffing at 9,000 feet altitude as I follow Jane into the Teton Wilderness. Our goal is Younts Peak, which, at 12,156 feet, is …
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Three Lessons Taught By Birds
When I was in third grade my teacher assigned our class an essay. The assignment was to write a story about bird migration. She asked us to imagine what it would be like to fly south to Florida for the winter or perhaps cross the Caribbean Sea to the Yucatán Peninsula. Our imaginations might even take …
More-Than-Human in New York
A hot wind cures my face as the L-train roars to a halt. It's ninety-two degrees outside and almost a hundred underground. I inhale, just once, and hold my breath, trying to keep out the saturated stink of urine, and the sort of squalor that produces bedbug pandemics and Medieval diseases. I am a new, reluctant New Yorker, …
Travels in Greater Yellowstone: Yellowstone Lake, July
7:30 in the morning, July 12. The wind is picking up quickly. I put my kayak into the waters of Sedge Bay, Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park. It's iffy but I get out a bit, into smoother waves. It's tough to put on my spray skirt but I get it on while trying to …
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Wilderness for Perspective
I went into the wilderness smelling like a human. I came out of the wilderness heavy with the sweet and spicy aroma of sagebrush clinging to my clothes and boots. My story often begins with sagebrush. Big Mountain Sagebrush – Aretemisia tridentata. Some say sagebrush smells like the west – like freedom and open space …
Writing the Wild 