Blog | Words from the Wild | Jessica Groenendijk

May 9, 2016

Log Cabin in the Woods

Isn’t this something lots of people, lots of writers, dream of having? A quiet, rustic refuge from our hectic, digital lives? A place roo...

Apr 25, 2016

Driftwood

Driftwood. I love even the word itself. It embodies a volatile yet timeless relationship. A marriage in which one partner, Wood, is warm ...

Apr 19, 2016

Titan of the Forest

Once upon a time, there was a young family who went to live in Africa. Their new home was in the middle of a National Park called North L...

Apr 11, 2016

Kinyonga, the Ground-Lion

Last week's guest blog brought back bittersweet memories. Over the years, my family has had many memorable pets, from tiny toads to timid...

Apr 3, 2016

Chameleon

This week I’ve got something extra fun for you, dear readers. I moderate a group called The Story of Nature on the writer site Scribophil...

Mar 29, 2016

Stars in Our Eyes

We went camping to Paracas over the Easter weekend. After the usual last-minute irritable rush to pack the car, we threaded our way to th...

Mar 19, 2016

Earth Hour, Our Hour

My nature writing colleague, Mary (curator at eco-fiction.com), writes in her blog that, for Earth Hour tonight, she's going to indulge i...

Mar 7, 2016

The Wonder of Rachel Carson

This week, I’m letting somebody else speak for me - had the author been alive today, I like to think she wouldn’t have minded my sharing ...

Feb 27, 2016

Mission Impossible

In addition to a pebble collection and a sea glass collection, I have an incipient collection of seeds and nuts. Unlike pebbles or sea gl...

Dec 20, 2015

Sacred Handprint

Tucked away in the Kalahari Desert of north-west Botswana, near the border with Namibia, is an enigmatic group of rocky outcrops known as...

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