Category: Books

20 Feelings You Can Experience While Camping

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20 Feelings You Can Experience While Camping
This is an excerpt from the new book I coauthored with Forest Woodward, The Camping Life: Inspiration and Ideas for Endless Adventure (available at Amazon, Bookshop, REI, and your local bookstore). The original title of this piece is “A Brief List of Feelings You Can Experience Camping That You [Nea...

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What to Read and Watch to Get Ready for the Olympics

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What to Read and Watch to Get Ready for the Olympics
Most of the recent news about the forthcoming Summer Olympics has been bleak, from ongoing concerns about COVID safety to the U.S. team’s decision not to include track star Sha’Carri Richardson after she used marijuana while mourning the very recent death of her mother. But there remains the promise...

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Everything You Need to Know to Take Your Kids Stargazing

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Everything You Need to Know to Take Your Kids Stargazing
Last fall, my husband and I decided to take our toddler camping in a remote part of Utah—far from the nearest town, far from the crowded national parks, far from anything, really. Campfires were banned because of drought, and I was bummed that we wouldn’t get to do the whole s’mores and roasted hotd...

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These 7 Dog-Training Principles Work for Humans, Too

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These 7 Dog-Training Principles Work for Humans, Too
Last winter my family grew by four legs. No, we didn’t have twins. We adopted Ananda, a then seven-week-old German shepherd dog (GSD). GSDs are great, but they are also a lot of work. When we first got Ananda, my son was just shy of three years old. Ananda thought he was a baby sheep and constantly ...

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Everything Our Editors Loved in June

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Everything Our Editors Loved in June
In June, when we weren’t outdoors braving the heat, Outside editors stayed cool inside with gripping psychological horror, nonfiction by New Yorker staff writers, and a surprisingly absorbing docuseries about the history of pop music. Here’s everything we loved last month. 

What We Read 

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Selective Disclosures

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“You don’t have to be an open book to everyone. Only show your pages to those who want to read your story”.

-Nicole Addison

My 11 years blogging have provided me the platform to share a few of my pages.  Falling somewhere between bestsellers and the  bargain bin discounts, they are...

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How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change

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How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
When my daughter was a few weeks old, a wildfire broke out near our home in southwest Colorado. The previous winter had been one of the driest on record, and the fire quickly burned out of control. Each night, as smoke crept through the cracks of our home, I cradled Josephine’s tiny body and worried...

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Sci-Fi & Me – Jeremy Keith – Stay Curious Café by beyond tellerrand – YouTube

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Here’s the video of the talk I gave on Wednesday evening all about my relationship with reading science fiction. There are handy chapter markers if you want to jump around. < div><a class="videoimglink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLp5ru2LqQ" onclick="event.preventDefault();this.parentNode.className='embed';this.parentNode.innerHTML='