November 27, 2020 12 Forward The young man standing six feet behind me offers to buy my drink. I’ve wandered up the river to Main Street [...]
November 3, 2020 0 Data On the river trail yesterday, a gentleman leading a party of four greeted me as I waited to the side to let [...]
September 14, 2020 6 Options “Failure is not an option,” words famously uttered by Ed Harris as NASA Flight Director Gene [...]
June 21, 2020 2 Fragments River guides learn to take feedback from the water itself, sensing when we’ve caught the right current. [...]
March 9, 2020 0 Drafting Out my window: Mojave desert bajadas and mountains in sun and heat. In my apartment: a cool refuge. On my [...]
October 14, 2019 0 Oases What can we say about oases? That question, the opening sentence in my latest book The Oasis This Time: [...]
March 11, 2019 0 Overburden Talk of opening the Arctic to oil exploitation brings up the “p” word. Petroculture, oil-driven [...]
December 5, 2018 0 Conversation Sometimes news isn’t new. For instance, recent declarations by U.S. senators that climate “is [...]
March 31, 2018 0 Expertise Who doesn’t love quotations about rivers? I find this one charming (by Jen Sincero, author of You Are a [...]