Amber VeverkaNothing dismal about this swampYou leave the cypress trees, wide-skirted in black water, and the water itself, laced in ice. You leave the cold silence, punctuated only...
Amber VeverkaThe beach doesn't care what you look likeYou stake your claim with an old sheet and a couple of rust-hinged, plastic-ribbed beach chairs. Arrange the emblems of your tiny...
Amber VeverkaThe Magic of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Cross CreekIt is risky to visit the land of one’s literature. Thoreau’s Walden Pond, hemmed by suburbia. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s sweet-scented...
Amber VeverkaA canyon full of silenceFor all I’d been told about this place – the heart-stopping size, the kaleidoscope of color, the eerie window into ancient time – no one...