Susan Johnson
commentatorSusan Johnson is a poet-biologist-rhetorician who teaches business communication at UMass Isenberg School of Management. She lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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Standing on top of Mt. Holyoke, I can see Mt. Greylock to the west, and Mt. Monadnock to the north.One biographer of Thoreau said he walked from Concord…
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A search-and-rescue team carried me down on a stretcher. They hoisted me high up into the trail’s hemlock and spruce so I was surrounded by their needles…
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When I first met my future husband, he asked me to go for a walk."Sure," I said."I’ll go get the kittens," he said.And so we set off, him holding two…
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I began hiking regularly with a friend and her chubby dog eight years ago. The friend worked a 9-to-5 job, so neither she nor her dog got much exercise.…
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"You should have a cell phone," my mother-in-law says.When I go for a hike, I bring a map, my car key, gum, and a bottle of water. When I reach the…