Essays:
“Oh, possum” – Terrain.org
“The West Virginia Brown Dog” – Heartwood
“Country Roads: A Brief Primer” – Dead Skunk Magazine
“To Catch a Craw” – Still: The Journal
“The Imperfect Aquarist” – Bayou Magazine, Issue 73, Listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2021.
“The Tan Place” – Hippocampus
“Dear West Virginia” – Terrain.org
“Of This Place” – Vandaleer
“Calamity Ben” – Brain, Child Magazine
Select Articles:
“Owls Among Us” – Wonderful West Virginia, December 2021
“Designate It & They Will Come” – Wonderful West Virginia, January 2022
“Furbearers: Tracking, Trapping, & Tradition” – Wonderful West Virginia, January 2022
“What’s In a Fish?” – Wonderful West Virginia, February 2022
“Welcoming Wildlife” – Wonderful West Virginia, March 2022
“Building Trails, Building Community” – WV Living, Spring 2022
“The Best Bread” – WV Living, Spring 2022
“Why Wheeling?” – WV Living, Spring 2022
“Mountain Riders” – Wonderful West Virginia, May 2022
“Meet the Natives” – Wonderful West Virginia, May 2022
“Haunted Ohio Valley History: Ghosts of Egypt Valley” – Archiving Wheeling
Mountaineer Media:
“Rise of the West Virginia Covid Campers”
“The Northern Panhandle: We’re Still Up Here”
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
Weelunk:
Visit Laura’s Weelunk Author Page for a complete list of Weelunk publications.
“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
“A Progressive Education in Our Backyard: Olney Friends School” – March 2020
Take a Hike, Ohio Valley – November 2020
Series: Roberts Ruminates, Autoimmune Series, One Tank Trips, Valley Views & Varmints