The Ed's Up - A special Galápagos photo essay
Santa Cruz giant tortoises Five days into our trip through the Galápagos, I was on the island of Santa Cruz watching a giant tortoise mount another…...
The Ed's Up - "I'm dying for some action..."
“… I’m sick of sitting round here trying to write this book.” - Bruce Springsteen I feel you, Bruce! These last few months have been tough; hence the...
The Ed's Up - Unbreaking
My face all the time I hope you’re all hanging in there. In the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people knew that the coronavirus that reached the...
The Ed's Up - On the Grounding Force of Spring Migration
Calliope hummingbird Happy spring migration to all who celebrate! This is my favorite part of the birding calendar. Birds that I haven’t seen for many months...
The Ed's Up - Radiate Outwards
Photo by Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times Last month, I was interviewed by David Marchese of the NYT for their interview series called The...
The Ed's Up - On Doing Something
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, I had reported the topic, knew people to call, had built enough credibility at my workplace to take big swings, and had...
The Ed's Up - On Community
In the talk I gave at the XOXO Festival this summer, I spoke about doubling down on my community. I’ve noticed that whenever I use that word, people...
The Ed's Up - An Immense World for Kids!
A year ago, I announced that a Young Readers Edition of An Immense World was in the works. I’m now delighted to say that it is finished! The book, complete...
The Ed's Up - XOXO
[Laughter] In the past, when I’ve given talks about the pandemic, they’ve focused on how Covid revealed the vulnerabilities in our society, and why we failed...
The Ed's Up - 11 Hours on a Boat
Before the puffin appeared, the day was disappointingly quiet. I was off the coast of California with my wife, Liz, on our first pelagic trip—a full-day...
The Ed's Up - A Writing Case Study
Behind-the-scenes: On writing and practiced intentionality Every June, since 2022, I’ve spent a week on Catalina Island to support the USC Storymakers...
The Ed's Up - Ain't That a Kick in the Heeeeeead
Earlier this month, I travelled to the Maasai Mara in Kenya to do some reporting for the book I’m currently working on. And while I was there, as is my wont,...
The Ed's Up - On Judging a Pulitzer
Last summer, I agreed to serve on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction—a group of five writers tasked with selecting the best nonfiction...
The Ed's Up - Immersion in the True Reality
Last month, I wrote a piece for the New York Times about what birding has meant to me. Here’s a little snippet, but you can read the full piece with this...
The Ed's Up - Birding for Long-Haulers
A black-crowned night-heron that we saw on the second outing of The Spoonbill Club The Spoonbill Club: An Experiment in Birding for Long-Haulers My favorite...
The Ed's Up - How to Start a Book
Only when books are completed do we really talk about how they began. During book talks, I often get asked about where the idea came from. Once I had it,...
The Ed's Up - A wound in the shape of your words
I have an op-ed in the New York Times about what reporting on long COVID and similar illnesses has meant to me—what it taught me, how I’ve approached it, and...
The Ed's Up: Announcing my third book!
Black-crowned night-heron Announcing Book Three: The Infinite Extent “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to...
The Ed's Up - Down under
A New Holland honeyeater, seemingly levitating The birthplace of birdsong I just arrived home from a magical week in Australia. I flew for 15 hours across an...
The Ed's Up - Photography + Young Readers
In which I try my hand at wildlife photography In the last newsletter, I wrote about diving (stooping?) into the world of birding. Well, never content to...