I launched a new blog yesterday for contributors to the anthology What Wildness is This, and Paula Yost put up a new post, "Women in Wild Places." I'm hoping there will be frequent posts by other writers whose work is included in the collection. Bookmark it and subscribe so you don't miss any posts. I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops.
Reading note, from Cindy Bellinger's "This Land on My Face" in What Wildness:
This land requires you to withstand--externally and internally--rockslides, searing heat, blizzards, and drenching rains. If you don't turn away, but turn toward the sun, the land finds a way in. It seeps under your skin, coursing through your veins like footsteps following old mountain trails. Before you know it, the land settles on your face. And you know you're home.