Selected Writings

Podcast

• On my podcast, "Because Nature Tells Me So," I read from some of my essays and other writings.

Regional Writing

• Selected essays of mine can be read at the Sustainable Lawrence website.

Books

About AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Philadelphia (AMC Books, 2010) Reviews of the book No Bad Hikes! When and where to attend my book signings, readings and presentations on hiking in the Philadelphia area

• Co-editor, Stewardship Handbook for Natural Lands in Southeastern Pennsylvania (Natural Lands Trust, 2009).

News and Features

• Stories on sustainability, environment, farming, and municipal issues for The Bucks County Herald.

Essays

• “Nature’s Way,” column in The Bucks County Herald (Oct. 11, 2006 to date); The Doylestown Patriot (through July 13, 2006):
  
  • “Winter Paths” (Jan. 21, 2010)
    
  • “Song of the Woods” (August 13, 2009)
    
  • “Time to Go A-Maying Again” (May 14, 2009)
    
  • “Message sent; message received” (Aug. 14, 2008)
    
  • “Dawnsong and Sundance” (May 8, 2008)
    
  • “Fruit on the Floor” (Oct. 18, 2007)
    
  • “E Pluribus Unum” (Aug. 23, 2007)
    
  • “I Know Where the Bees Went” (June 28, 2007)
    
  • “To See the World in a Grain of Pollen” (May 24, 2007)
    
  • “Snowfates” (March 22, 2007)
    
  • “Night and Day” (January 18, 2007)
    
  • “Perchance to Dream” (Dec. 7, 2006)
    
  • “Now Playing” (Oct. 11, 2006)
    
    • reprinted in The Area Guide Book 2007
  • “Into the Damp”(July 13, 2006)
    
  • “I Feel A Song Coming On” (June 1, 2006)
    
  • “At Your Service” (April 20, 2006)
    
  • “A Fete for the Fetid“ (March 2, 2006)
    
  • “Smooth or Chunky?” (January 19, 2006)
    
  • “Here's Looking At You” (December 8, 2005)
    
  • “Leaves, Leaving” (December 3, 2004)
    
  • “Warm Fuzzies” (October 28, 2004)
    
  • “Along the riverrun” (September 30, 2004)
    
  • “The Weight of Water” (August 19, 2004)
    
  • “The Larva Ascending” (July 15, 2004)
    
  • “Wrong is Right” (July 1, 2004)
    
  • “Golden Locks and Red Sox” (May 20, 2004)
    
  • “In the Flow” (April 1, 2004)
    
  • “Hold That Thought” (February 26, 2004)
    
  • “A Winter’s Tale” (January 15, 2004)
    
  • “Pick-up Sticks” (December 11, 2003)
    
  • “The Power of Place” (November 6, 2003)
    
  • “Salute the Colors” (September 25, 2003)
    
  • “Katy Did It” (August 28, 2003)
    
  • “Wait and See” (July 24, 2003)
    
  • “Mind the Gap” (June 26, 2003)
    
  • “Mother of Us All” (May 22, 2003)
    
  • “Stop the World” (April 17, 2003)
    
  • “Of Bark and a Bird” (March 14, 2003)
    
  • “Winter Remainder” (February 13, 2003)
    
  • “Snowmelt and Memory” (December 26, 2002)
    
  • “The Untouchables” (November 7, 2002)
    
  • “El Dorado” (October 10, 2002)
    
  • “In the Shade Pool” (August 22, 2002)
    
  • “Today’s Model” (July 5, 2002)
    
  • “Rabbit, Rabbit” (June 13, 2002)
    
  • “Fly in the Ointment” (May 2, 2002)
    
  • “Wild Beauty” (April 18, 2002)
    
  • “Dance at Dusk” (March 14, 2002)
    
  • “Cries of the Heart” (February 7, 2002)
    
  • “True Friends” (January 24, 2002)
    
  • “Slow Motion” (December 10, 2001)
    
  • “Book of Revelations” (November 8, 2001)
    
  • “What Lies Between” (October 11, 2001)
    
  • “Dealing with Forever” (September 6, 2001)
    
  • “Play’s the Thing” (August 16, 2001)
    
  • “Lunch Break” (July 26, 2001)
    
  • “Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?” (June 28, 2001)
    
  • “What’s Happening in an ‘Empty Field’” (June 14, 2001)
    

• “The Nature of Bucks,” column in The Bucks County Herald:
  • “Keep a-Going: Dark Hollow Park” (November 15, 2007)
    
  • “Nothing Doing: Great Blue Herons at Quakertown Swamp” (April 19, 2007)
    
  • “Frozen Time: High Falls at Ringing Rocks Park” (February 8, 2007)
    
  • “A View From the Bridge” (December 21, 2006)
    
  • “Manderfield Preserve” (November 9, 2006)
    
  • “Giving Pond Recreation Area” (August 24, 2006)
  • “Meadow and Woods at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve” (August 17, 2006)
  • “Church View Drive area in Nockamixon State Park” (May 25, 2006)
    
  • “Point Pleasant Community Park” (April 20, 2006)
    
  • “The Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve” (February 23, 2006)
    
  • “Top Rock Trail” (January 5, 2006)
    

• “The Power of Placement” (2007)
  
• “Trees in Space,” Bucks County Herald, May 12, 2005
  (also see Planting a Tree In My Honor)
  
• “At Home in the Wild: Creating a Backyard Habitat,” Bucks County Herald, September 2, 2004 (pt. 1)
  
• “The Lena’pe and the Irradiator: A Tale of Renewal,” Bucks County Herald, November 20, 2003
  

Articles

• “Birdman of Bucks,” Pennsylvania Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008
  
• “Liesegang Banding in Tennessee Sandstone,” The Tennessee Conservationist, July/August 2006
  
• “Information Technology: Beyond the Toolbox,” Special Libraries, Fall 1995, p. 265-271. (Winner, 1996 SLA-H.W. Wilson Award for best article published in Special Libraries.)
  
• “The Constitutionality of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act,” Columbia Law Review, 1983, pp. 727-754.
  
• “Editorial Discretion of State Public Broadcasting Licensees,” Columbia Law Review, 1982, pp.1161-1182.
  

Fiction

• “Fifty-Fifty,” Quantum Muse, May 2006

Poems

• At This Writing
  
• The Presence of Absence
  
• For Columbia
  

Business and Educational Communication

• Employee newsletter articles, brochures, environmental report for Fortune 500 company
• Chapters on sustainability and climate change for high school earth science textbook

Miscellany

• “SiteSense,” Website capsule reviews - Nov. 2000 to Dec. 2002: See these artifacts of the 2001 and 2002 sets.
  
  
• Reviews and articles published on LLRX.com
  
  • “A Roundup of News-filtering Tools,” Sept. 15, 2000
    
  • “Tech Tip: Dynamic Dates in Westlaw Intranet Links,” Feb 1, 2000
    
  • “Product Review: Westlaw Find & Print 3.2 for Windows,” August, 1999
    
  • “A Review of West’s Intranet Toolkit,” March 15, 1999
    
  • “Product Review: SurfSaver,” Oct. 1, 1998
    
  • “Product Review: SnagIt,” July 1, 1998