a girl named Sue

Glines Canyon Dam, Elwha River, Washington. Photo: Mikal Jakubal There is a low-stakes battle being waged insi...

I ordered a test run of postcards for work and fell in love with Artifact Uprising . The paper quality is sumptuous! I hadn't plann...

Confession time. I'm a river-slash-book lover who has never read Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It . I've never even wa...

Photo via im me We traveled far and wide when I was growing up, but the only legitimate hike I can ever remember doing as a family was c...

Awesometastic maps by Herb Lester Associates . I signed up for a fun new class a couple of weeks ago, Map Making: Learning to Communic...

I have always despised the burning, choking sensation of chlorinated pool water rushing in through the nostrils. Sadly, it took me years t...

Chasing Ice starts off like a modern day disaster flick, splicing news clips of catastrophic flooding amidst footage of a spate of climat...

I'm pretty green most of the time, but I try not to go off on "lunatic fringe" rants (because, when you do what I do during...

Our Gilmore Girls, season 1 report card is ready for sharing! Scarlet and I finished up the first season with episode 14 of Friday Night ...

I have my friend Sara to thank for introducing me to Beryl Markham. I was skeptical when she first pressed her memoir, West with the Night...

The idea for the novel I finished drafting on my sabbatical first came to me in 2011. Tucked into a booth at Demolition Coffee in Petersb...

Today is my first day back in the office after six weeks off, so I thought I'd kick this season off with a new series. You've prob...

I'm feeling bittersweet this morning. It's the last day of my sabbatical. I'm trying desperately to maintain the zen-like feel...

Slide from Austin Kleon's SXSW 2014 Interactive keynote address. Every now and then I find myself blown away at how much technology ...

A new episode of That's What She Read is available for your listening pleasure! I plan to write about my sabbatical reads later this ...

All of the great Twitter buzz about Amtrak needing to institute a writing residency ( which they later did ) had me laughing to myself. ...

I'm prone to love almost any idea based in the sharing of books or what we're reading. If I have to engage in small talk, "...

It's mind boggling to think that the first month of my sabbatical is over. There is a tiny part of me that is filled with anxi...

For the better part of a decade, the only "real" meal I can remember cooking is spaghetti or similar pasta dishes. The kitchen...

Often the books that affect me most deeply are the ones in which I struggle to frame why the book was so impactful and why it should be de...