Stephanie Mills
Stephanie Mills is the author of In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land (Beacon Press). She is currently at work on her next book, titled Epicurean Simplicity.
A Simpler Than Average Life
Details are my delight. In the country, many of the details have minds of their own: lady beetles crowding around, seeking winter hibernacula; knapweed flourishing everywhere; a raccoon and her pudgy kits climbing a cherry tree; a crow japing overhead. All this living, self-willed detail informs me in ways that cities no longer do.
August 2002The One Who Steals The Fat
At century’s end, we’re consumers, not gatherers or producers. We’re at the mercy of dimly understood industrial processes and long lines of supply. Being at such removes — practical, geographic, and technological — from our sustenance, most of us are ignorant of the source of our tap water and the provenance of our food.
January 2001The Love Story
We swore to do it till death do us part and neither of us crossed our fingers. That, in itself, was rather a miracle. We were hardly speaking at the time. “I will” was a long conversation.
August 1986Hard Learning: A Diary
May 1. My vanity was injured because my self-revelation, my skilled dissection of my outsize half of the relationship, didn’t beguile him.
February 1984Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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