Ten things writers have to say about writing (plus blindness, gardening, sandboxes…)
by“It’s really, really hard to make something that’s interesting. It’s like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that’s written or…
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Canada’s vast, interconnected and stunningly beautiful waterways
byLast week we published a link to John Lavey’s watershed map of the United States. Topology Essay Curator Henry Bakker just came across this beautiful…
Helen Macdonald on sex, death and mushrooms
byI love Helen Macdonald’s writing, and I’m tempted to quote the last paragraph of her essay “Sex, Death and Mushrooms” right here, but instead,…
Edna Lewis: Place, culture, cuisine
byIf someone borrowed one cup of sugar, they would return two. If someone fell ill, the neighbors would go in and milk the cows,…
The United (Watershed) States of America
byn 1879, geologist John Wesley Powell proposed that as western states were incorporated into the United States, their borders be determined by their watershed….
Buying a post office; saving a farm
byShannon Hayes, author of Radical Homemakers, writes in Yes! Magazine about her family’s experience trying to make the numbers work on her family farm, which unexpectedly…
War through the eyes of kids
byThe virtual reality goggles that were included with this edition of the New York Times are still sitting on the end table, untested. After…
Gate A-4
byFollowing up on the “Healing our blindness” piece we published yesterday, here’s a beautiful story from Naomi Shihab Nye on Live & Learn about how small…