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Making it Personal

May 29, 2019

Sometimes it’s harder than you think to write accessibly.

Tags Arctic, brain fog, essays, fieldwork, history, Longreads, mental health, mental illness, Narratively, relationships, trees, writing

It's All About Mary

April 3, 2019

Lately I’ve been reading about a lot of Mary’s, and I enjoy them all!

Tags environment, gender, gender equity, history, mountains, outdoors, Rocky Mountains, women

Who is today's Rachel Carson?

January 16, 2019

Rachel Carson is often seen as the driver of the modern environmental movement. But who stands in her shoes today?

Tags A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, climate change, conservation, Elizabeth Kolbert, Elizabeth Rush, emma marris, environment, history, indigenous peoples, Katharine Hayhoe, Naomi Oreskes, Rachel Carson, Rob Macfarlane, Robin Wall-Kimmerer, Sandra Postel, sea level rise, Silent Spring, water

Saturday Shot: 27 Oct

October 27, 2018

Features a series of shots from this morning’s fabulous secondhand typewriter find.

Tags analogue, blackandwhite, digital, history, photography, reporter, technology, typewriters, writing

Snail Mail

July 11, 2018

This past week I received two letters in the mail: one from my book club friend whom I’ve mentioned here previously, and one from a … Read more

Tags analogue, digital, email, emotion, friends, handwriting, history, hopes and dreams, letters, text, writing

How's Your Inner Life These Days?

August 23, 2017

Today instead of a Wednesday links post I’ve decided to write a regular post with a few links thrown in. —- Over the past few … Read more

Tags academia, community, Creativity, cycling, eclipse, editing, history, kayaking, landscape, life, nature, outdoors, place, progress, quiet, social media, thinking, writing

How History Can Help Your Science

January 25, 2016

Putting your research field in context isn’t just about reading the latest journal articles, or searching out the seminal papers from the past few decades. … Read more

Tags Alexander von Humboldt, Andrea Wulf, Arctic, biography, Carl Linnaeus, Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Fritz Koerner, history, histsci, nonfiction, research, research context, science

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