Robert E. Saunders – Medium

Robert E. Saunders

The Long Night

A poem written on the Winter Solstice

Dec 21, 2024

The Long Night

Dec 21, 2024

Published in
Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO

How to Choose Your Inner Holiday Curmudgeon

Should you be a Grinch or a Scrooge?

Dec 19, 2024

Person dressed as the Grinch sits in his lair.

Dec 19, 2024

Published in
Thirty over Fifty

A Haunting at Bleak House

How the Ghost of Charles Dickens Inspired Barbara Kingsolver to Write ‘Demon Copperhead’

Oct 22, 2024

Bleak House, a guesthouse in Kent.

Oct 22, 2024

Published in
Thirty over Fifty

Wolf Pups are Untamed Little Wonders

These playful creatures offered me a rare and unforgettable experience

Aug 5, 2024

A wolf pup at the West Virginia Wildlife Center.

Aug 5, 2024

Published in
Thirty over Fifty

Appalachian ‘Holler’ Speech still Lingers up Yonder

Rapidly disappearing, old-time mountain dialects lose some of their stigma

Jun 11, 2024

Cabin in Appalachia in the 1930s

Jun 11, 2024

A Fishing Side Hustle that’s a Real Stretch

Wherein club members learn the importance of not forgetting their rubbers

Jun 4, 2024

Two blonde women in waders holding a rainbow trout

Jun 4, 2024

Published in
Thirty over Fifty

‘Big Two-Hearted River’ Still the Best Literary Depiction of PTSD

In Hemingway’s short story, a fly line becomes a lifeline for a deeply-wounded man returning from war

May 1, 2024

Ernest Hemingway book shown with fly rod and a small fly box.

May 1, 2024

How Krok Invented Fly Fishing

Anthropologists have traced a major piscatorial breakthrough back to a legendary Paleolithic paragon

Apr 10, 2024

Cartoon of caveman and cavewoman

Apr 10, 2024

Published in
MuddyUm

Planning a National Park Trip? Not so Fast!

The great outdoors is no place for unlicensed newbies

Apr 3, 2024

Illustration of three tents in a field in the woods.

Apr 3, 2024

Published in
The Haven

Hares and Heresy on the Bunny Trail

Have your Peeps call my Peeps about these hopped-up claims

Mar 27, 2024

Hares and Heresy on the Bunny Trail

Mar 27, 2024

Robert E. Saunders

Robert E. Saunders

Robert E. Saunders is a newspaper and magazine editor and outdoors enthusiast. Boosted writer. Reading him won't help your side hustle.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams