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Old Growth On the Chopping Block Once Again
It makes sense: cut funds and staffing to the Forest Service; watch the trails, lands and forests overgrow; announce this is a dangerous situation for…
Mar 16
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I Am Your Snowblower
For us west coasters wondering where winter is... let's not forget about miracle March!
Feb 5
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Meghan Robins
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Dear Paid Subscribers,
Dec 22, 2025
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Meghan Robins
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What Nature Deserves
I was tired of reading a certain children’s book, which has beautiful illustrations but the words (a poem by John Muir) were painful for me to read. So…
Dec 8, 2025
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Finding My Brand. Do I Have To?
Writing across genres does not align with marketers telling us to create one concise branding package. So…what? Am I just one thing?
Oct 27, 2025
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Meghan Robins
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I need a snow day...
Snow days are these remarkable resets, a time for reflection, a time for family, a time to remember the most important basics...
Feb 7, 2025
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Book Review: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
How great writers use omniscient narrator to create worlds in which you want to linger…
Dec 29, 2024
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Writing About a Culture That’s Not My Own
When I decided to include an Indigenous storyline in my historical novel, I had a lot of decisions to make about how, why, what, and most importantly…
Nov 19, 2024
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Cultural Appropriation Vs Repatriation: The Problem with Indiana Jones
Let's go one step further in challenging the Heroes Journey and ask who gets sacrificed in these iconic western narratives.
Nov 1, 2024
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The One Where I Womansplain Men’s Lit.
I paid good money in college to think like a man, now I want out...
Sep 27, 2024
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Book Review: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
A slight departure from my regular stuff, but here's a book review from a writer’s perspective...
Sep 5, 2024
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Meghan Robins
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I Should Think Like A Tree
What happened 200 years ago matters. What we do today, matters.
Jul 28, 2024
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Meghan Robins
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Beyond Land Acknowledgements
A borrowed phrase I like so much I want you to think about it too.
Jun 30, 2024
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Meghan Robins
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How Upgrading Our Language Can Save the World
Choosing more giving language is an important step in saving the world and you can start doing it today...
May 22, 2024
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Writing about the American West, Lake Tahoe history, grammar for regular people, and other writerly things.
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