Last week at Nori’s, after a hard day of hanging out, swilling coffee and swapping lies, I went out to my car and — Lo and Behold! — there was a note under one of my windshield wipers. For a very long moment I just stared at it, dumbfounded — I couldn’t remember the last time ...

Cats are the best. If you don’t have a cat, you should get one. If you can’t get one, you could visit the cat shelter or foster. I have two cats of my own. When I’m upset, I sit down, and one of my cats, Beats, will rub up to me and get in my face and purr, and I will pet her until I ...

A new book by Curt Stager and David Fadden, “The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands,” makes its purpose clear. The authors are, respectively, a Paul Smiths College professor and the third-generation director of Six Nations Iroquois Cultural ...

Last week sadly, another wilderness traveler died of hypothermia in the High Peaks Wilderness. News of such calamities reminds me that winter isn’t an abstraction or a romantic postcard—it’s a force to be reckoned with. People often ask how I endure winter camping. I wouldn’t call it ...