Essays & Articles:
“To Catch a Craw” – Still : The Journal, summer 2021
“The Imperfect Aquarist” – Bayou Magazine
“Haunted Ohio Valley History: Ghosts of Egypt Valley” – Archiving Wheeling
“The Tan Place” – Hippocampus
“Dear West Virginia” – Terrain
“Of This Place” – Vandaleer
“Calamity Ben” – Brain, Child Magazine
Humor:
“We Have Rearranged Your Local Grocery Store and We Don’t Give a Fuck What You Think About It” – Defenestration
“The Writer Who Fakes It” – Brevity
“Guidance Counselor’s Notes: The Marten School for Mustelids Mid-Year Evaluations” – The Museum of Americana
“Eulogy for a Marshall County Possum” – Halfway Down the Stairs
“I Take a Pill for This, But I Don’t Think It’s Working” – Erma Bombeck Humor Site
“The Game of Cat” – The Higgs Weldon
“The Effectiveness of Feeding a Flock of Leucophaeus atrilla as a Method of Counteracting Querulous Behavior in a 10-Year-Old Male Child” – Defenestration
“The Earwig Emails” – Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine
“I’m OCD. My Partner’s ADD. Here’s What Happens When We Travel.” – Matador Network
“Roberts Ruminates: Boxed In – Weelunk
“Roberts Ruminates: Traditions, Toilets, & Trickery” – Weelunk
Mountaineer Media:
“Rise of the West Virginia Covid Campers”
“The Northern Panhandle: We’re Still Up Here”
Weelunk:
Visit Laura’s Weelunk Author Page for a complete list of Weelunk publications.
Take a Hike, Ohio Valley – November 2020
Fishing for the Perfect Social Distancing Activity? – June 2020
“Community Gardens: Green & Growing in Wheeling” – May 2020
“Victory Gardens: Then & Now” – May 2020
“GROW OV Plants the Seed for Local Victory Gardens Campaign” – May 2020
“A Progressive Education in Our Backyard: Olney Friends School” – March 2020
“The History of the West Virginia Hot Dog” – January 2020
“Adolescent Mental Illness (Part 2): One Ohio Valley Family’s Struggle” – December 2019
“Adolescent Mental Illness (Part 1): Health Issues On the Rise” – December 2019
“A History of Disaster: How Piedmont Lake and the Muskingum Watershed Lakes Came to Be” – Weelunk
“Petrochemicals and the Ohio Valley” – Weelunk
“Coyotes: Truth, Myth & What We’re Getting Wrong”
“The Modern Victorian Cocktail: History, Family & Balance in a Century-Old Home” – Weelunk
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