SELECTED ESSAYS & ARTICLES
TRAVEL & NATURE
“Regenerative Tourism Invites Travelers to Get their Hands Dirty” from Smithsonian
“Vampire Bats May have a Bad Reputation, but They are Smart and Social” from The Washington Post
“A Bird’s Song Adds Wonder to the World” from High Country News
“Sharing a Deck, Tales, and Tape: Adventures on the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry” from The Boston Globe
“Volunteer Vacation: Plan Your Next Trip to Give Back” from Via
“In the Pandemic, Feral Turkeys Unite a Neighborhood” from Humans & Nature
“Keeping Watch: Fire Lookouts in the Payette National Forest” from McCall Life
“Slow Mobility on the Accessible Coast” from The Oregon Coast
“Take a Marine Life Cruise on the Oregon Coast” Travel Oregon
BIG IDEAS & INNOVATIONS
“Families Like Ours: A Reading List for the Children of Queer Parents” from Longreads
“Meeting Chaos with Compassion through The Roots of Buddhist Psychology” from The Revealer
“The Pure Liberation of a Personal Urination Device” from The New York Times Magazine
“How Down Syndrome Makes a Brain Beautifully Different” from Muse Magazine
“For World Down Syndrome Day, Meet 3 Young People Who Dream Big and Achieve” from The Washington Post
“About 120,000 U.S. Foster Kids are Waiting for Parents. One of Them is Now My Daughter” from CNN
“The Privilege to Raise Our Voices” from Oregon Humanities
“The Game was Rigged All Along” from Dame
“A Culinary Apprenticeship Fights Food Insecurity in Rochester, NY” from Next Ci
FEATURED ESSAY
ON WRITING
“Why We Write: On Pandemics, Heat Waves, Police Brutality & Resiliency” from Brevity
“It’s a Performance, People! Tips for Moderating a Lively Panel” from The Writers’ Chronicle
“Seven Ways to Build a Writing Habit” from The Writer Magazine
“John Daniel: A Good Animal, Too” from High Country News
“Author and Her Non-Binary Teenager Challenge Book Banning” from CNN
“Literary Travel Magazine Wields the Power of Crowdfunding to Offer Writers a Respectable Paycheck” from Study Hall
“Surviving the Spite: How to Deal with Public Criticism as a Writer” from Writer’s Digest
“How to Use Diverse Books in your At-Home Learning” from We Need Diverse Books
See a decade’s worth of my articles & essays from The Writer Magazine