We are a species for whom place has been vital.Yet, these days, we can live lives that pretend that place means nothing. We are …
Facebook’s Destruction of a Sense of Place
I understand the services offered by the internet. I am obligated to understand them, because the net has taken over my life and …
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Read “Loon Boy”
This essay, “Loon Boy,” won terrain.org’s nature-writing essay contest recently. My friend Simmons Buntin, the founder …
Do You Have a Secret (or Not So Secret) Desire to Write?
I am teaching a Level 1 class in creative nonfiction and memoir starting in April. If you have a story or book that is burning …
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