A Habitation

Dispatch from a Text-Based Life Form

Or, why I'm leaving Substack

Jan 13 • Matt Miller

11

1

2

November 2025

Teaching is Authoritarian

Why I no longer teach like I'm "just asking questions"

Nov 4, 2025 • Matt Miller

8

3

1

October 2025

Some Matters of Opinion

Place-based education, ditching your smartphone isn't enough, and some new/old writing about Nebraska

Oct 30, 2025 • Matt Miller

4

1

September 2025

Why I Am Not Going to Use AI

It's not critical thinking just because you say it is

Sep 8, 2025 • Matt Miller

16

2

4

August 2025

Epitaph for a Blue Plastic Dinosaur

A story about homesickness and our relationship to objects

Aug 21, 2025 • Matt Miller

3

1

Notes on Teaching Outdoors, and What I Did with My Summer

On my students' outdoor activities, and mine

Aug 18, 2025 • Matt Miller

6

In Praise of the Blockquote

I, too, dislike them—but...

Aug 2, 2025 • Matt Miller

3

1

2

June 2025

The Only Wealth is Woodchips

Tribute to a gardener's delight

Jun 30, 2025 • Matt Miller

5

1

Coon Creek

A small memory of the domestic wild

Jun 24, 2025 • Matt Miller

7

On Gribley's Mountain

How a children's book from 1959 taught me to love the wild

Jun 19, 2025 • Matt Miller

7

Lauds

A very short essay, after a poem by G.M. Hopkins

Jun 16, 2025 • Matt Miller

6

3

Seventeen Theses on Writing and Place

Reflections on the relationship between literature, place, and the modern world

Jun 12, 2025 • Matt Miller

19

6

8