Welcome to Meg Unlimited

Photo credit: Preston Ehrler

About Meg

Welcome to readers who know me from my work with Delaware Currents. This site is the first step into what I might be doing in the coming months — writing newsletters that aren't really like the newsletters I've written in the past. But this is the best way to find out what I'm doing or planning to do.

Meg, I get that — it’s your name. But Unlimited?

After being a journalist for 35 years, it won't surprise you that I'm still hooked and remain deeply respectful of the imperfect craft I practice. And fascinated — and maybe a little horrified — by the titanic forces of change driving the intentional and unintentional shaping and reshaping of the craft.

Another way I’m writing is the essay – sometimes the newsletters I write will appear here.

Being a poet for even longer than anything, there will be poems, most of those have nothing to do with journalism, but with, in Emily Dickinson’s words, “the Culprit, – Life!”

Surgeons must be very careful

When they take the knife!

Underneath their fine incisions

Stirs the Culprit, – Life!

- Emily Dickinson

There are no limits to the paths that words can take and create. For we are, each of us, unlimited.

Stay Connected

I'd really like to keep in touch with those of you I've met through my work in Delaware Currents. And the best way to do that is for you to subscribe to my newsletter.

To be honest, I'm not really sure what I'll be writing about. As you can see from previous writings that have been posted to this site over the years, I can wander in lots of different directions.

But partly, my aim is to write about my transition from "just" an environmental journalist to...something else? What will that be?

And maybe you'll share your own stories of transition and we can learn from each other.

Wouldn’t that be grand?

So sign up already!!

I've been a journalist for a really long time, but I've been a poet even longer.

Whatever the "title," I work in words, so maybe that's what I am: a wordsmith.