Here is Where I Walk: Episodes from a Life in the Forest with author Leslie Carol Roberts

The Presidio, America’s only residential national park tucked wholly into an urban setting, is a fading historic forest. Here is where the author’s home has been for more than a decade and here is the place she raised her two children as a single mother. In this thickly textured literary treasure, Leslie turns her daily journeys, rich with observation and recollection, into revelations of deeper meaning. The twelve episodes, each connected to a month of the year and interwoven with field notebooks, explore everything from Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in the fields where he spoke with the birds to the work of Western botanist Alice Eastwood. She notes both ridiculous and poignant aspects of human ecosystems all in pursuit of what it means to live a life of creativity and creation.

Leslie Roberts is an author, journalist, and essayist as well as professor and chair of the MFA Writing Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has written hundreds of articles and essays for a variety of publications, including Bellevue Literary Review, Christian Science Monitor, and Baltimore Sun. She lives in the Presidio of San Francisco with her two children.