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Seeing rat city through rose-colored glasses
There’s something particularly piquant about simply walking around with someone new to the city
Mar 16
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Spiraling, but it's fine
Also: Victorian women enjoying Maine; nature writing and Alice and Wonderland
Mar 9
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Even more golf courses than McDonald’s locations
Plus: The end of university herbaria? Cop City protesters, or domestic terrorists?
Mar 2
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February 2024
“I can’t write as well as those guys, but I can walk a lot farther.”
Review: Wandering Home by Bill McKibben
Feb 24
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Who should pay for playgrounds in public parks?
Plus: Reasons to be skeptical of 1,000 Hours Outside
Feb 17
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Obsessed, entranced, seduced, panicked
On decluttering and sacred spaces.
Feb 10
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Confronting speedboats, lazy lagooners, and loneliness on the Columbia River
On an 800-mile canoe trip, Hannah Griffin learned that a crowded river heavily altered by humans can be the loneliest to traverse.
Feb 3
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January 2024
A victim of the cult of optimization and productivity
“They don’t know we’re just out there training for our real sport: long-distance walking.”
Jan 27
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Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?
Plus: The ethics of hunting, and icing your drinks with glaciers.
Jan 20
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Imagine I’m jogging in the Great North Woods
Plus: The end of Gore-Tex; a swimming pool in the Hudson; new 'terror beasts' discovered; too many words about space trash; and more.
Jan 13
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1,000 hours outside
No resolutions, just observations
Jan 6
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December 2023
A bite of paradise
A gustatory experience often promised by fast food commercials but rarely delivered
Dec 23, 2023
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