https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/ Writing from Lawrence Millman on Substack — place, species, and whatever turned up in the field. https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/among-headhunters/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/among-headhunters Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:58:29 GMT Being a backward sort of guy, I’ve always liked to hang out with similarly backward people. An example: the Iban of Borneo. That they were head-hunters, or… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/among-the-stricken/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/among-the-stricken Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:04:56 GMT Once upon an earlier time I visited two different groups of former headhunters, the Shuar in Ecuador and the Iban in Sarawak. “Former” tends to be a somewhat… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/a-most-valuable-utensil/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/a-most-valuable-utensil Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:00:07 GMT Wherever I happen to go, I always take a pencil with me. Write down that damn story immediately, the pencil I have in my hand will declare, and I feel obliged… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/kuujjuaq-project-report/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/kuujjuaq-project-report Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:58:06 GMT To the best of my knowledge, no one had ever given serious attention to the fungi (i.e., mushrooms) of the Kuujjuaq region before my August 12-18, 2007 visit… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/the-monster/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/the-monster Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:19:48 GMT Once upon an earlier time I was a prisoner war at an academic institution. Behind metaphoric bars, I was obliged to teach remarkably ambiguous works of… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/overlooked/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/overlooked Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:26:56 GMT Certain fungi are not so much rare as overlooked. How many people have gazed upon Sarea resinae , for example? This orangeish ascomycete, seldom more than half… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/welcome-to-the-bog/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-bog Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:21:22 GMT Blogs fill me with a certain disgust, mostly because the word blog seems like it’s an amalgam of blah, bah, and blather. So, instead, I’d like to call what… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/a-luddite-lexicon-available-july/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/a-luddite-lexicon-available-july Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:00 GMT A Luddite Lexicon is a dictionary of words and phrases that speak out against the technological matrix currently enveloping our planet. Inside that matrix, a… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/meeting-an-ancient-creature/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/meeting-an-ancient-creature Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:00:00 GMT So there I was, swatting mosquitoes on Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic. I didn’t come to this relatively remote island because I wanted to engage in… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/outsider-my-boyhood-with-thoreau/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/outsider-my-boyhood-with-thoreau Fri, 17 May 2024 04:00:00 GMT I am excited to share my latest book, available at better bookstores everywhere. “Thoreau, I think. would have wanted you to carry Outsider in your hip pocket… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/bad-doggy/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/bad-doggy Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:00:00 GMT Hardly anything, not even an infant asleep in a stroller, raises the oxytocin of certain people to such Everest-like heights as the sight of a wide-eyed… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/why-i-dropped-out-of-the-explorers/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/why-i-dropped-out-of-the-explorers Sat, 08 Dec 2018 05:00:00 GMT Once upon a time the Explorers Club was one of the most prestigious organizations on the planet. Its past members included such eminences as Richard Peary… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/paradise-found/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/paradise-found Sun, 14 Oct 2018 04:00:00 GMT Thanks to the unabashed tourist meccas of Nassau and Freeport, the word “Bahamas” calls up images of mega-gambling casinos, no less mega-cruise ships, package… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/a-walk-on-the-wild-side/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/a-walk-on-the-wild-side Fri, 08 Jun 2018 04:00:00 GMT So there you are, walking along the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The crowds are oppressive, Nature seems to have disappeared, and there’s nary a spouting whale in… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/sir-john-franklins-lost-diary/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/sir-john-franklins-lost-diary Mon, 02 Nov 2015 05:00:00 GMT On September 9, 2014, Parks Canada discovered the remains of the HMS Erebus, explorer Sir John Franklin’s remarkably newsworthy flagship. Among the artifacts… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/mystery-writer/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/mystery-writer Sat, 14 Mar 2015 04:00:00 GMT One of my finest moments occured at Na-Bolom in San Christobal de las Casas, Mexico, in the fall of 1992. I had just given a talk about the Labrador Innu in… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/an-encounter-with-terana-caerulea/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/an-encounter-with-terana-caerulea Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:00:00 GMT Not so long ago, I was visiting a stamp-collecting friend, and I happened to see the corticioid species Terana caerulea on a recent Macedonian stamp. A… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/santa-claus-is-a-mushroom/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/santa-claus-is-a-mushroom Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:00:00 GMT Christmas is nearly upon us, and I can’t help thinking of a certain mushroom. Specifically, I think of Amanita muscaria , a large, often obese red-and-white… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/sixteen-reasons-why-giant-madagascar/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/sixteen-reasons-why-giant-madagascar Thu, 24 Oct 2013 04:00:00 GMT 1. They do not bite you, scratch you, or leave dead mice on your pillow. Nor do they confuse your leg with a sexual partner. 2. Their slow, indeed downright… https://lawrencemillman.com/bog/an-unsung-hero/ https://lawrencemillman.substack.com/p/an-unsung-hero Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT In honor of the excessive media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, I’ve decided to write this bog posting about an Arctic explorer named Paul Bjorvig…