This week I am honored to feature a guest post by Karen Elizabeth Baril. Karen has written more than 400 feature articles in top equestrian magazines including Equus, The Equine Journal, and Trail Rider Magazine. Most recently, she published a creative non-fiction essay in Still Crazy literary magazine. Her career goals are to inform, enlighten, and, …
Breathe
I swear to God, on Nov. 9th the sun never rose; New York City skies were thick, gloomy, gray in the morning and black by afternoon. I recalled words that a friend of mine, artist Alisha Anderson, had written for a different occasion: I believe in a God who weeps. There were quivering lips and darkened eyes on …
Hiking the Wild
“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. for it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures a part of the geography of hope.” …
Selling The Farm
I got the email from my dad six weeks ago. It was characteristically sparse: We just sold the farmhouse and 6 acres. Closing targeted for Nov. 1. I had known it was coming but couldn't bear to talk about it. Losing this place was something I couldn't quite stomach or breathe past; I told my parents I …
Bearanoia
It’s Sunday, football day, and John asks if I want to go for a walk up Palmer Mountain Road. “We need another grouse for that pot pie,” he says. I don’t particularly care for football day, but John does, so I’m surprised by his suggestion. I consider briefly the grizzly sow with three cubs spotted …
Writing the Wild 