The Book of Noticing: Collections and Connections on the Trail reflects on nature and the human experience. It springs from many long walks, chiefly here in Connecticut. After a long run with good feedback from readers, it is now out of print but you can likely find it from some online sellers. Contact me at khauswirth@sbcglobal.net to see if I still have a copy I can sell you directly.

One of the pieces in the book, called Beckoning the Mountain, won first prize for memoir vignette in the 2016 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition! In 2018, the book won Honorable mention in the General Nonfiction category by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. The book was also a Finalist for Book Excellence Awards, Environmental Category.

I am happy to give talks and book club visits (including Zoom visits), and I am always happy to sign a copy, if you have a gift for someone special (including yourself!) in mind. Excerpt published in The Day: access here.
Here is a Shoreline Times article about the book, and workshops/events.
Here is an article/review in Seasons Magazine (see sidebar at end)
Here is a review in Connecticut Woodlands.
March 2018, in a Hartford Courant article by Denise Coffey:

Hauswirth read a few selections from her book. A quote by John Muir begins it: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

Her essays are a reflection of that sentiment. She draws connections between all manner of things: manna and mushrooms, salamanders and prehistoric life, trees and sentient beings. And she proposes that what we care about matters, even if we aren’t full time naturalists or well versed in the habits of bees, birds, or budding trees and flowers.

Her essays convey the miracle of vernal pool life, the natural treasures hidden in plain sight, the efficiency of death, the constancy of new beginnings. And she weaves in the ideas and writing of scientists, philosophers, historians, and naturalists to bolster her observations.

It’s a beautiful book. It will make any reader want to buy her own pair of muck boots and head out into the world.

Reviews received prepublication: single-document-book-reviews_011817_forblogpdf.