Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Mastodon
Terrie Schweitzer
Terrie Schweitzer

3.4K Followers

Home

Lists

About

Pinned

Satellites and Space Junk

Standing in the dark with my 5-year-old self — When the alarm went off, I turned off my lights and walked outside. Stood facing north. The dry leaves of the trees rustled in the breeze — it was only May, and we were under a red-flag warning already. The jasmine blooming behind my landlord’s fence perfumed the air. Though…

Starlink

2 min read

Starlink

2 min read


Pinned

Silent Confrontations in Klamath Basin

The two Prairie Falcons are playing in the wind currents along the face of the cliff, shrieking and crying. One carries the hindquarters of a long-tailed rodent, pausing at times to land and rend its prey and eat, or sometimes simply eating on the wing. Another perches on an old…

Environment

13 min read

Silent Confrontations in Klamath Basin
Silent Confrontations in Klamath Basin
Environment

13 min read


Published in

The Medium Blog

·Aug 10

Updated Guidelines for Boost

How Medium curators assess story quality, and how to think about it in your writing — We’ve updated Medium’s Quality Guidelines based on direct feedback from the Medium community, and I wanted to say more about how we hope it does a better job of explaining our approach in a useful way. Our underlying philosophy about story quality hasn’t changed, but we learned that our previous…

Writing

9 min read

Updated Guidelines for Boost
Updated Guidelines for Boost
Writing

9 min read


Jun 22

Request for Comment: Medium’s Quality Standards

Below is a copy of our current quality standards as posted on Medium.com. We regularly review these standards to update and refine them in ways that help us serve the readers and writers of the Medium community. Please highlight and add any comments that you feel would be helpful to…

Medium

5 min read

Medium

5 min read


Jun 19

A Morning at Point Reyes

Photos from a visit to Kehoe Beach and other spots —

Point Reyes

2 min read

A Morning at Point Reyes
A Morning at Point Reyes
Point Reyes

2 min read


Nov 20, 2022

A good listen on overlanding Alaska

A good listen on overlanding Alaska I’ve been noodling on the idea of doing an overland trip to the Arctic Circle in the summer of 2023 or 2024. So when I saw this week’s Overland Journal Podcast episode, Destination Alaska, I moved it to the top of my listening queue. I was not disappointed. What I…

Overlanding

1 min read

Overlanding

1 min read


Nov 13, 2022

– from Christopher Brown’s Field Notes: Autumn Blooms in the Astronaut Squat.

“The wooded area is likely a patch of interstitial commons, part of the right of way of the onramps that define it. A zone that would seem tiny, if you took out the trees, but manages to envelop a dimension that exceeds its linear bounds. Two seasons ago, a pair…

Urban Nature

1 min read

Urban Nature

1 min read


Nov 11, 2022

From Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghy:

From Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghy: Her beak is red like she’s dipped it in blood. It turns her strong in my mind. I place her back in the nest and edge away, taking the cage with me. I want her to explode free, I want there to be fury in…

Books

1 min read

Books

1 min read


Nov 4, 2022

Saturday with Sea Forager and Dark Garden

On Saturday, I attended a Coastal Sea Foraging class in San Francisco, given by Kirk Lombard of Sea Forager. A couple of years ago, I was given a copy of his terrific book, The Sea Forager’s Guide to the Northern California Coast (thank you!), and had been following Sea Forager…

Fishing

4 min read

Saturday with Sea Forager and Dark Garden
Saturday with Sea Forager and Dark Garden
Fishing

4 min read


Jun 23, 2022

Getting to Day 5 with the Bony Dog

Luck seems to be a matter of working with reality instead of against it — The big bony dog next door sleeps in a raised cage during the day, often sprawled on his back with his legs splayed open, balls flopping in the heat. I think he begins barking at night when it’s his time to be let out and guard the place. He doesn’t…

Travel

7 min read

Getting to Day 5 with the Bony Dog
Getting to Day 5 with the Bony Dog
Travel

7 min read

Terrie Schweitzer

Terrie Schweitzer

3.4K Followers

Director, Content Curation at Medium. Luckiest woman in the world. http://terrie.me/

Following
  • Clive Thompson

    Clive Thompson

  • Christyl Rivers, Phd.

    Christyl Rivers, Phd.

  • Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow

  • John DeVore

    John DeVore

  • Derrick Story

    Derrick Story

See all (309)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams