As Ed Abbey wrote, The very names are lovely. The names are as varied as the bedrock that births them. The [...]

What can we say about oases? That question, the opening sentence in my latest book The Oasis This Time: [...]

Splaining is a thing, and it’s everywhere. The word has been around for decades–hundreds of [...]

Up in the Fremont National Forest, a breeze wisps through the pines. There is the cool feel of autumn. The [...]

The second half of the James Dean quote, “Live as if you’ll die today,” is not nearly as [...]

We tire of looking out our windows. There are wild sights beyond the glass, but we long for high-desert [...]

The car leaves the road: small car, Honda Civic sized. It shudders and is airborne. Wobbles in the way of [...]

All this talk of opening the Arctic to oil exploitation brings up the “p” word. Petroculture: a [...]

It’s open-studio time again. The artists in residence here at PLAYA Summer Lake allow us into their [...]

Yesterday the endless vistas. This morning, a snow-shrouded house and views into white squalls. At sunrise, [...]