women

December 4, 2023 2

Training

In Decembers past, I’ve shared resources for writers and readers; this last post of the year is in that [...]

May 31, 2023 12

Finish

The heartbreaking 2016 Antarctic crossing of Henry Worsley, who came within 126 miles of his goal, recently [...]

August 31, 2022 2

Survivors

As hidden stories are revealed, they tend to smack us right between the eyes. So the work of writers and [...]

July 31, 2022 6

Voice

The rare-bird reports reach my phone from Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s citizen-science app, ebird, [...]

March 9, 2022 2

Hydropolitics

(Profits from my book sales this month—and for the foreseeable future—will benefit UNICEF, specifically [...]

April 1, 2021 2

All through March, I wanted to compile a list of women who've made history running rivers—but stopped each time. Why only a month? I asked. Why can't March—and all months—be about a thing called The People's History? How amazing we would feel as a body united, not splintered into factions we observe according to Presidential designation. [...]