“Failure is not an option,” words famously uttered by Ed Harris as NASA Flight Director Gene [...]

River guides learn to take feedback from the water itself, sensing when we’ve caught the right current. [...]

Out my window: Mojave desert bajadas and mountains in sun and heat. In my apartment: a cool refuge. On my [...]

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

Talk of opening the Arctic to oil exploitation brings up the “p” word. Petroculture, oil-driven [...]

Sometimes news isn’t new. For instance, recent declarations by U.S. senators that climate “is [...]

Who doesn’t love quotations about rivers? I find this one charming (by Jen Sincero, author of You Are a [...]

At five a.m. in our landlocked valley, cauliflower heads of unexpected thunderheads rise beyond the woods to [...]

(Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant take on The Loneliness of Donald Trump inspired my own bit of myth [...]

(or How Not to Let a Little Rough Going Get You Down) Here in Central Oregon, there are rough-legged hawks, [...]