Susan Fox Rogers

A RIVER'S PLEASURE

2009-12-13T18:28:33-05:00

My latest book: A RIVER’S PLEASURE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN CRONIN. This is a collection of essays that celebrates the life and work of my friend John Cronin. He has had a wide-ranging, imaginative career and is one of...

Blind(s)

2009-11-17T09:15:05-05:00

Late fall paddles have a certain thrill to them. The air warms for a day, but the water has already begun its pull to cold. Sitting so close to the water, my feet begin to numb from the cold of...

Chincoteague

2009-10-03T12:33:44-04:00

As a child I read Misty of Chincoteague (which is on sale in every store in town for $2.99) and have always had a mental image of this place as wild, with farms dominating the landscape. The town itself is...

Michael Werner

2009-09-23T13:16:41-04:00

A few days ago, I called my rock climbing friend Rich Perch, who lives in Colorado “What are you doing inside on a glorious day?” I said without a hello. I was full of the early autumn glory of the...

Full Moon Paddle

2009-09-05T22:45:27-04:00

Not much blogging this summer, but some adventuring (which I’ll perhaps get to recounting at some point). Last night was the September full moon—not as special as the August full moon, which is the Sturgeon Moon, but it is the...

Birds, Birds, Bicknell and Blackburnian

2009-06-07T10:37:08-04:00

Mid-May I woke up and heard bird songs. Of course I had always heard birds rattling away in the morning, a blur of noise that told me the world was alive. Suddenly, though, as if a part of my hearing...

The Game of Go

2009-05-29T12:09:26-04:00

OK, we're taking a break from the cold of Antarctica and the steep cliffs of the Gunks to report on the Game of Go. Turns out my nephew, Thomas--above--is a Go champion, which has our family both baffled and delighted....

Picking up Garbage

2009-05-10T19:38:50-04:00

One day, when I was about five and my sister seven, the two of us were floating on an inflatable raft on Long Pond (Cape Cod). Our father sat on the tiny sand beach and watched. It was a lazy,...

Back on the River

2009-04-29T08:46:29-04:00

April 18, 2009. Back on the river. On Friday evening I slid my kayak into the water off of Tivoli and shoved north toward Cheviot. As I put in a man pulled onto the rocky landing in his boat. He...

Red Rocks Climbing Trip

2009-04-20T08:49:51-04:00

Here is a short piece I wrote about the joys of climbing. At Red Rocks, Nevada, you can find guides who act like soccer coaches with their clients, cheering them on as they dangle from top ropes. There are super...

Anarctica Reading

2009-01-21T09:20:59-05:00

If you live in New Jersey near Lambertville, come join me at the Acme Movie Theater on 25 S. Union St. at 6 pm on Saturday January 24. (for a bit more information click here). I will speak about Antarctica,...

Jon Bowermaster, back in the Antarctic

2008-12-12T15:17:54-05:00

No one gets around the globe like Jon Bowermaster. He's back in the Antarctic this austral summer after his successful kayak trip there last year. During that trip he was on hand when the tourist ship went down and oddly...

Update from Antarcticans

2008-11-29T20:20:24-05:00

One of the great pleasures of editing anthologies is the sense I have of creating a literary community around a place, subject or activity that I love. That certainly is the case with Antarctica: Life on the Ice. Recently, some...

Back in the Catskills

2008-11-29T19:50:33-05:00

Late fall and winter are hiking season in the Catskills--especially if you are bushwacking. That's what I did with Connie (also known as Killer Connie, in red) and Edna on November 15 as we trudged up Mount Sherrill and North...

Antarctica wins Silver Medal

2008-10-24T13:46:27-04:00

Antarctica: Life on the Ice has won the Silver medal from the Society of American Travel Writers! This is part of their Lowell Thomas awards in journalism. Thank you writers for making this book such a success! I know I...

More Radio for Antarctica

2008-03-04T21:35:59-05:00

Thursday I'm traveling to Central Pennsylvania--Harrisburg--to talk with Sandy Fenton on her radio show "Let's Talk Travel with AAA" about Antarctica: Life on the Ice. Harrisburg is near where I grew up, State College, home of Penn State (where I...

Kayaking the Antarctic

2008-01-29T21:36:20-05:00

If you have not been following Jon Bowermaster's trip by kayak into the Antarctic--you must (it's almost over!). The images of ice, penguins and seals are simply extraordinary and he describes the day to day of this five-week adventure in...

India in the Antarctic

2008-01-23T10:50:54-05:00

Sudhir Khandelwal, a psychologist from Delhi, India has been blogging from the Indian base, Maitri this 2008 season. According to the News Post India his is the first-ever blog from an Indian from Antarctica. It's a great blog--at the moment...

Christmas at the South Pole

2007-12-23T21:04:51-05:00

Somehow Glenn Grant ("Shrink Rap" in Antarctica: Life on the Ice) has ended up at the South Pole after months of being off the map. He has been working on an ice breaker and has traveled to both sides--and the...

Book Passage Reading on TV

2007-12-22T23:52:08-05:00

On December 7, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Bill Fox, Kristan Hutchison, and Joe Mastroianni read (brilliantly) from Antarctica: Life on the Ice at Book Passage, the "Bay Area's Liveliest Bookstore." And it is a wonderful place, with a string of amazing...

Don't Eat Chilean Sea Bass

2007-12-20T18:31:33-05:00

Every Thursday and Sunday evenings in McMurdo there are lectures, mostly given by the scientists working on the ice. This follows a long tradition in polar travel and exploration. Scott and his men had weekly lectures as well. They knew...

Antarctic Meteorites

2007-12-14T21:18:44-05:00

One question we got for the virtual tour was this: Where can I get genuine Antarctic meteorites? Is there anyone who ships them to the US? As it turns out, Christopher Cokinos, one of the contributors to Antarctica: Life on...

Blog Talk Radio!

2007-12-13T22:56:45-05:00

We did it! Katy Jensen called in from Colorado Springs, Guy Guthridge hopped off his boat long enough to phone in, and Karen Joyce and David Ainley called in from the Ice for the virtual book tour. My first ever....

In the Antarctic Ocean

2007-12-12T20:25:50-05:00

When I traveled to Antarctica, working on finding writers to contribute to Antarctica: Life on the Ice (then just a hope in my heart and an idea in my head), I spent a night in Christchurch, New Zealand. There, I...

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR!

2007-12-09T20:59:26-05:00

From anywhere on planet earth you can log into the Virtual Book tour for Antarctica: Life on the Ice. As someone I know would say, how cool is that? When: Thursday December 13, 5 PST, 8 EST How: log into...

A View from Above of the Bottom of the Earth

2007-12-04T23:03:50-05:00

Look at the Antarctic from above! This image, from the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica is of Antarctica--anyone want to guess what we are looking at? The entire continent except the South Pole is covered and you can zoom in...

Log from Cape Royds, or, More Penguins! and Whales!

2007-11-28T23:23:27-05:00

David Ainley gave an overview of his work with Adelie penguins at Cape Royds in an earlier blog (below) and now he's generously sharing the day to day (including Thanksgiving!) and the science of his life on the ice. We...

Antarctica is for Dreamers and Readers

2007-11-28T18:19:43-05:00

World Hum is a marvelous website devoted to travel writing. Editor Jim Benning interviewed me yesterday--it was a fun conversation--about the Explorer sinking and about Antarctica: Life on the Ice. Here is the World Hum interview. They have lots of...

Spirit of Shackleton

2007-11-25T12:27:52-05:00

The cruise ship Explorer that sunk in Antarctic waters has gotten a lot of attention. Those aboard were on a trip in the "Spirit of Shackleton." They were probably thinking of his 1914 Endurance expedition, not the trip with Scott...

Antarctic Sun!

2007-11-24T09:54:49-05:00

Read all about it! Peter Rejcek has written a lovely piece about Antarctica: Life on the Ice for the Antarctic Sun. Thank you, Peter.

Thanksgiving in the Dunes

2007-11-23T09:22:32-05:00

My wish on Thanksgiving was to spend most of it outside, and to eat lobster (not turkey) as I did last year with my father. So I headed to Cape Cod to visit my friend Jody Melander, who has lived...

Burning calories AND keeping warm

2007-11-22T16:31:07-05:00

From Karen Joyce--thanks Karen! Who are these people? That's a great split off to the right!

Thanksgiving on Ice

2007-11-22T09:43:58-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving! For those of you sitting warm inside, watching football and smelling the turkey roasting I want you to send a warm thought to our friends on the ice who are not eating turkey. To give a glimpse of...

Ululations Have Been Increasing

2007-11-20T21:37:36-05:00

David Ainley reports that he has just arrived at Cape Royds, where it is egg laying season. Here is the great surprise: penguin populations are going up! David's lyrical essay in Antarctica: Life on the Ice is about contemplating the...

Polar Disorder

2007-11-20T21:11:16-05:00

No, don't worry, penguin chicks are not suffering from Polar Disorder. The chick comes from Nicholas Johnson's marvelous website, Big Dead Place, that is dedicated to Antarctica and to thinking about Antarctica. This penguin comes from an essay about the...

Into the Cold: Antarctica travels to Minneapolis

2007-11-18T22:12:55-05:00

Don't we look like cousins? Katy Jensen on the left, me on the right. We read together from Antarctica: Life on the Ice on November 11 at Mager's and Quinn (a fabulous bookstore--both new and used) on a balmy early...

Who is that webmaster?

2007-11-17T22:29:30-05:00

We're going to take a little break from the Antarctic to ask an important question: who is my webmaster. Many of you have been wondering--and well you might. Here are some clues as to who he is. He is the...

XTRA, XTRA: Read All About The Antarctic Sun

2007-11-17T10:27:47-05:00

The best and cheapest all-points-north bulletin on the planet comes right to your doorstep by clicking The Antaracic Sun, a fun and exciting, web-based magazine with "News about the US Antarctic Program, the Ice, and the People." Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sun brings you incredible tales and characters from the bottom of the planet (not unlike Antarctica: Life on the Ice by yours truly).

Bill Jirsa: "Antarctica Trumped my Funk"

2007-11-14T22:38:22-05:00

It's hard to describe Ice People--but if I had one word it would be eclectic. I was fascinated, intrigued and often in awe of those I met, so in these pages I will introduce you to some, and have them...

Antarctica: Life on the Road

2007-11-13T18:05:53-05:00

Antarctica: Life on the Ice hit the road this past weekend. First stop: Boulder, Colorado where I read with Traci Macnamara and Beth Bartel. Traci brought a blow-up globe so that everyone would know where the Antarctic is (not "up...