I’m Haley E.D. Houseman. I write about communities - human and otherwise. The Morning Report is a newsletter that began as an extended edition of a tweeting habit from my morning walks. Now it covers all sorts of things that get me out of bed in the morning.

If you like nature writing, check out HUMANxNATURE, an anthology on unconventional nature writing I founded with writer and designer Missy J. Kennedy. You can also read my reporting and essays on my website, where I’ve written about everything from sewing my own clothes to art museums to witches. I was recently invited to the Aspen Words Festival as an Emerging Writer Fellow.

These dispatches arrive from the Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts from myself and a very energetic hound mix named Bosco, who hears it all first.