Erica 👻 🌲 📕
@rickirobin.bsky.social
Writer, reader, knitter, sometimes organizer. Student of climate & shifting seasons. Contentedly discontent.
Ghosts of Distant Trees, Porphyry Press 2025
Denali National Park, AK.
Part of my heart lives in the desert.
she/her
ericarobinwatson.com
Ghosts of Distant Trees, Porphyry Press 2025
Denali National Park, AK.
Part of my heart lives in the desert.
she/her
ericarobinwatson.com
Morning reading, new mug
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Morning reading, new mug
My first essay collection is brand new, & I’m proud of how it’s been received thus far! I’d love for it to reach more readers interested in climate, relationship to place, & interrogating common environmental narratives.
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
My first essay collection is brand new, & I’m proud of how it’s been received thus far! I’d love for it to reach more readers interested in climate, relationship to place, & interrogating common environmental narratives.
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
Order here, or your favorite indy bookstore: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
And #Fairbanks, if I missed you, I’ll be back at Solstice Bookshop on Saturday with all these other local authors!
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And #Fairbanks, if I missed you, I’ll be back at Solstice Bookshop on Saturday with all these other local authors!
A few pics from my first couple book-talking/selling events this last week, in Fairbanks, with @pataky.bsky.social and @coyotetrail.bsky.social & here at Denali. It’s been a lovely transition into this stage of my book’s life!
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A few pics from my first couple book-talking/selling events this last week, in Fairbanks, with @pataky.bsky.social and @coyotetrail.bsky.social & here at Denali. It’s been a lovely transition into this stage of my book’s life!
Got up to pee around 1:30 and caught this out the window.
I guess this is an aurora account now.
I guess this is an aurora account now.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Got up to pee around 1:30 and caught this out the window.
I guess this is an aurora account now.
I guess this is an aurora account now.
This is alarmingly true. I anticipated being like “yes, it’s a book, reading it is what people will do with it” but I too have yet to be normal abt it.
I even got emotional when a family friend told me her giant puppy ate part of her copy. I’m like “omg first dog eaten copy can I share this??”
So:
I even got emotional when a family friend told me her giant puppy ate part of her copy. I’m like “omg first dog eaten copy can I share this??”
So:
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is alarmingly true. I anticipated being like “yes, it’s a book, reading it is what people will do with it” but I too have yet to be normal abt it.
I even got emotional when a family friend told me her giant puppy ate part of her copy. I’m like “omg first dog eaten copy can I share this??”
So:
I even got emotional when a family friend told me her giant puppy ate part of her copy. I’m like “omg first dog eaten copy can I share this??”
So:
The way below zero days make you want to do nothing and everything all at once
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The way below zero days make you want to do nothing and everything all at once
2nd night: back in the expected half of the sky.
p.s. - I had to unexpectedly replace my phone over the summer, & everything about the new iPhone is worse than the old iPhone, except for aurora pictures, I’ve learned in the last 28 hours. So at least there’s that.
p.s. - I had to unexpectedly replace my phone over the summer, & everything about the new iPhone is worse than the old iPhone, except for aurora pictures, I’ve learned in the last 28 hours. So at least there’s that.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
2nd night: back in the expected half of the sky.
p.s. - I had to unexpectedly replace my phone over the summer, & everything about the new iPhone is worse than the old iPhone, except for aurora pictures, I’ve learned in the last 28 hours. So at least there’s that.
p.s. - I had to unexpectedly replace my phone over the summer, & everything about the new iPhone is worse than the old iPhone, except for aurora pictures, I’ve learned in the last 28 hours. So at least there’s that.
#alaskasky from Denali, 64°N, never seen so much pink and red
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
#alaskasky from Denali, 64°N, never seen so much pink and red
It’s always a good sign when you and your publisher take book pics in the wood pile, independently and with zero coordination 😅
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s always a good sign when you and your publisher take book pics in the wood pile, independently and with zero coordination 😅
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
Neighbor & I walked the dogs to the river. I dropped my phone in the snow chasing the dog to get him to drop a moose bone & was halfway home before I realized & drove back to find it. All my notifications are abt medical crises or the senate except for one abt bunco.
I’m not in the mood for bunco
I’m not in the mood for bunco
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Neighbor & I walked the dogs to the river. I dropped my phone in the snow chasing the dog to get him to drop a moose bone & was halfway home before I realized & drove back to find it. All my notifications are abt medical crises or the senate except for one abt bunco.
I’m not in the mood for bunco
I’m not in the mood for bunco
4 years with this weirdo today
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
4 years with this weirdo today
Oh! This also happened last night.
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Oh! This also happened last night.
BREAKING: there is also an election in the Denali borough
(it’s a very quiet day)
(it’s a very quiet day)
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
BREAKING: there is also an election in the Denali borough
(it’s a very quiet day)
(it’s a very quiet day)
gate is closed at kennels, road is walkable. We just walked a bit on the road after our po run today. There’s barely any snow, not skiable yet.
& I’m sure you know this but to others: there’s no trash or restrooms etc, be extra safe & pack out trash & be kind- anyone working isn’t getting paid —
& I’m sure you know this but to others: there’s no trash or restrooms etc, be extra safe & pack out trash & be kind- anyone working isn’t getting paid —
November 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
gate is closed at kennels, road is walkable. We just walked a bit on the road after our po run today. There’s barely any snow, not skiable yet.
& I’m sure you know this but to others: there’s no trash or restrooms etc, be extra safe & pack out trash & be kind- anyone working isn’t getting paid —
& I’m sure you know this but to others: there’s no trash or restrooms etc, be extra safe & pack out trash & be kind- anyone working isn’t getting paid —
Plz enjoy this picture of #OzzyofDenali photobombing my attempt to get decent headshots last fall
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Plz enjoy this picture of #OzzyofDenali photobombing my attempt to get decent headshots last fall
We are waiting for our baseball fan friend to pick us up to go to a masquerade, gathering that it’ll be a while…?
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
We are waiting for our baseball fan friend to pick us up to go to a masquerade, gathering that it’ll be a while…?
It’s not my best work, but I really needed a nap 👻👻
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It’s not my best work, but I really needed a nap 👻👻
The Nenana River: making ice sexy again
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Nenana River: making ice sexy again
“Being Black in America means having a historical relationship w forgiveness…What happens when the performance of Black forgiveness gets repeated…until it becomes ritualized & transformed into tradition…?
“In the 21st century, how do we escape the theatre of forgiveness?”
-Hafizah Augustus Geter
“In the 21st century, how do we escape the theatre of forgiveness?”
-Hafizah Augustus Geter
October 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Being Black in America means having a historical relationship w forgiveness…What happens when the performance of Black forgiveness gets repeated…until it becomes ritualized & transformed into tradition…?
“In the 21st century, how do we escape the theatre of forgiveness?”
-Hafizah Augustus Geter
“In the 21st century, how do we escape the theatre of forgiveness?”
-Hafizah Augustus Geter
My friend organized a little Banned Books Reading at the community center (I read from Erika Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter), knit a community hat (pattern by Calypso farms for donation to the Bread Line), &read my friends Simmons’ essays, which make me miss the desert. A nice wknd
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My friend organized a little Banned Books Reading at the community center (I read from Erika Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter), knit a community hat (pattern by Calypso farms for donation to the Bread Line), &read my friends Simmons’ essays, which make me miss the desert. A nice wknd
Dawnell isn’t the first early reader to use the word “ambivalence” to describe the book’s tone, but did drill down on what the ambivalence is towards: the sense of misdirected attention, perhaps. I’m still contemplating it, though I don’t disagree.
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Dawnell isn’t the first early reader to use the word “ambivalence” to describe the book’s tone, but did drill down on what the ambivalence is towards: the sense of misdirected attention, perhaps. I’m still contemplating it, though I don’t disagree.
We know Alaska is making national news when dipshit accounts like this weigh in with murderous nonsense
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We know Alaska is making national news when dipshit accounts like this weigh in with murderous nonsense
A rainbow surprised me today
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
A rainbow surprised me today
Wants a govt shutdown bc more walks. Doesn’t understand how his bougie food gets paid for
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Wants a govt shutdown bc more walks. Doesn’t understand how his bougie food gets paid for