Decorate your darkness
I love to follow social media accounts run by people who live in very different natural environments from my own.…
Bankhead National Forest: Finding Alabama’s Paradise
I sometimes have an aversion to doing things that I feel like I see “everywhere,” or something that “everyone” is…
Planes, overlooks and quarries: Ruffner Mountain
Hidden in the backdrop of downtown Birmingham, next to I-59 and the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International airport, is Ruffner Mountain, a public…
Lost Creek: Caving in the Southeast
When I say the word “cave,” a person could pull from an endless amount of imagery from the world. From…
Room to breathe
In last month’s article, I talked about the poet Mary Oliver’s question, “What are you going to do with your…
Exploring Alabama’s tallest peak at Cheaha State Park
I’m not sure how I haven’t written about this park yet. I’m talking about the tallest point in Alabama, the…
Wild and Precious
My decisions in the last year or so have largely been guided by a question Mary Oliver posed in 1990,…
Adventuring outside Alabama: The Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains, found in the Southeast, are some of the oldest mountains in the world. They’re a seemingly…
How we want to be seen
I have recently considered learning to scuba dive. I’m about to start graduate school, will be located several hours from…
June at the 4H Center
This Longleaf Hiker is a little different. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a lot of time to explore Alabama during June.…