Book Talk at Walpole Town Library, Walpole, NH

I will be talking about and reading from Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress at the Walpole Town Library. Come find out why I dared to step into the woods to follow the deer, and what I discovered in the process. You don’t have to become a deer hunt to...
Every Day Outdoors

Every Day Outdoors

Despite living in rural Vermont—a place of great natural beauty and seasonal changes—I had slipped into a workaholic life that was keeping me indoors, except when I took Leo, my dog, for a walk. We’d be two miles up a hill before I even looked up from the gravel under...

Birds of a Feather . . .

Sunday’s wet snow stuck to every twig, branch and tree. . . . Flock Together The snow that fell overnight Sunday into Monday stuck to every twig, branch, and tree like wet plaster, turning the landscape into a frosted landscape. Thanks to windless conditions,...

Winter Arrives

Every Day Outdoors, 1/17/24  “Bright, white daylight. Insinuating wind. Skiing across the fields, both sweating and chilled. It feels as if winter has finally arrived.”  I broke a ski trail across the fields outside my back door yesterday. Glorious. I plan...

Outside Every Day

In mid-December, I had this idea to go outside every day, no matter the time, no matter the weather. It wasn’t to do anything in particular, except to be outdoors, feel the air in my lungs and on my face, taste the weather, attune myself to the natural world. Wary of...