ICYMI I wrote about the Utah monolith... but also about art and vandalism, Indigenous peoples' ancestral homelands and adventure tourism
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Becca Worby
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Writer. Senior editor . Previously & . Probably daydreaming about mountains or desert. Same handle on IG. She/her.
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~~someone make an app that changes all the etiquette article screenshots to pictures of cats and raccoons challenge~~
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Can't believe I nearly missed an important blog about Pallas's cats on Everest!! Yes my whole city was frozen solid for two days but that's NO EXCUSE. I also didn't know they were small, "as if you blow-dried a 10-pound house cat"
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Does anybody have a story of two cats who met and were instantly buddies and not mortal enemies? Asking for Stevie and my cousin’s cat Cannoli, who came over because their power is out 😬
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being in austin is great because there are so many different eateries with big patios. but then there are also the horrors
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January was the best month I've had in my three years in Austin so naturally this week we get [gestures at ice coating every single thing in the world] this
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"...sidewalk fossils are often peeks into lives that continued. The birds flew somewhere; the dogs, I hope, went on to wag over many sticks and smells."
this, by , is so tender and lovely 🍃
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I loved it. It's so tender. And yes it makes a certain kind of person want to take on wildly large projects.
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Turn Every Page: straight-up delightful from start to finish!!* Like being held by a warm, semicolon-shaped hug.
*except when you think too hard about what was possible for Caro's career that isn't possible now and was never possible for people who don't look like Caro/Gottlieb
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"Olympic National Park is a wonderful opportunity to rediscover who we really are, not who we think we are. We can study our own hearing." Neat interview w/ an acoustic ecologist, featuring sound clips that thoroughly confused my cat:
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will never stop wondering what would happen if we could go back a decade and install somebody else to run NYT books coverage!!!
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Lots of talk about book pre-orders today, so here's some nonfiction that I'm excited about on the subjects of, respectively, aliens, wolves, and bears:
THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE by
WOLFISH by
EIGHT BEARS by
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Looking at all the great online writing classes, I just thought, "I would like to take several of these in a sequence instead of just one... like all as one package, maybe even in person"—thereby inventing going back to school, which I have already done
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A.M. 180 by Grandaddy still hits
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I have had SUCH a good experience writing for and in particular –– lord knows I have Hot Takes about the tourism industry but it's a real treat to write for a travel writing outlet that takes locals of diverse perspectives seriously
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It was a total delight to edit this ode to the Terlingua Porch for ' website! (Yes, we have a website! And we're going to be putting lots more excellent original writing there this year, so look out.)
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I had a DREAM assignment come out today –– social history, memoir & musing about cheap bear, Terlingua dogs and respecting your elders wildsam.com/blogs/stories/
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THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE comes out in *three months,* which seems a good time to start sharing some of the wonderful, generous things early readers have said about the book. I'm so grateful for their reading and their words. First, from :
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We'll be sharing another update later early this evening, but in the meantime, for anyone in the areas surrounding the Zoo who may be curious or have concerns -
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"On your own land, everything will help you to defend it."
Just when you think that every conceivable benefit of beavers has been documented, they go ahead and help win a war.
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same energy
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We have an ongoing situation at the Zoo right now with a Code Blue – that is a non-dangerous animal that is out of its habitat. One of our clouded leopards was not in its habitat when the team arrived this morning and is unaccounted for at this time.
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new anxiety dream just dropped (lost my cat in a movie theater)
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When you send an email that makes you nervous? And then you just have to keep living your life? Messed up tbh. There should be a fast-forward button for this
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only a matter of time before I send an email with the sign-off "Beset, Becca"
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you: research is procrastination, get writing!
me: research is good, actually
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stumbled on an easter egg while doing novel research! google "meteorite" for a...moving surprise
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my first bird of the year was a raccoon
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I'm usually stubbornly anti-resolution, but I'm feeling drawn to the hope of a new start, so here's some earnestness: This year, I'm recommitting to writing. Writing more, and more often. Embracing low stakes. Noticing what glimmers. Carrying a notebook. Finishing things.
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People like to say the way you spend New Years Day sets the tone for the year but I am spending the day in Dulles Airport so no thank you. Anyway I had a glamorous NYE so there’s that
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(tweet sent from an airport bar in Chicago 🙃)
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Austin to Boston is simply a cursed route. Origin and destination should not rhyme
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A fun element of this is that, since we were not planning to be here past tomorrow morning, we are not prepared for the hard freeze that's currently riding into Texas on high winds. Hopefully we'll still get out of here but if not I hope H-E-B still has some beans left
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It's canceled 🙃
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What are the chances my flight to Boston tomorrow gets canceled?
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What are the chances my flight to Boston tomorrow gets canceled?
- 50/50, who knows37.5%
- it's gonna be fine!12.5%
- get ready for Xmas in TX50%
16 votesFinal results
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This is the *only* time a publication I’ve written for has sent me a note of gratitude and a gorgeous print for the holidays. In an industry that often treats writers poorly I think this is a way to earn my undying fealty. Thanks for being awesome, and
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