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The Cemetery Belt

Spiritual sister of the English moorlands

'Where even the downhills are uphill'

New York is burning

It was Election Day in America

Inherently cringe

A little less uprooted

The last 10 miles

Green with envy

Fantasy, peak capitalism, and the road not taken

Art, artifice, and artificiality (sea glass)

Second-hand pleasure, second-hand anxiety

URGENT: How NYC's 'bird people' save wildlife

It has grown, and I’ve grown along with it

When girlhood and toxic masculinity collide in the woods

I wish everyone could smell a creosote bush just before a monsoon rain

A decade later, I thought I could go twice as far in just one day

Like a homecoming

Bear!

It wasn’t an emergency. It was just inconvenient

I may not be a peak bagger, but I love bagging peaks

Only the most hardy species can survive

Why hiking is like going to a spa

My head is very noisy of late

On walking around Manhattan

If there’s even a tinge of the dreary February in your soul...

Feral pockets, redwood trees, / NatureScores, emergency pees

On the eclipse train

A euphoric sense of pride

In the end, I did plant the seeds

Seeing rat city through rose-colored glasses

Spiraling, but it's fine

Even more golf courses than McDonald’s locations

“I can’t write as well as those guys, but I can walk a lot farther.”

Who should pay for playgrounds in public parks?

Obsessed, entranced, seduced, panicked

Confronting speedboats, lazy lagooners, and loneliness on the Columbia River

A victim of the cult of optimization and productivity

Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?

Imagine I’m jogging in the Great North Woods

1,000 hours outside