River guides learn to take feedback from the water itself, sensing when we've caught the right current. Slamming a boulder or rock wall or ending up on a slow boat to nowhere gives feedback in real time. It's not always learn or die––but it's certainly learn or suffer long timeouts in eddies or slave-rowing against the wind. [...]

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

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, [...]

We’re using this word a lot these days. Resist. From the Latin resistere, meaning re (expressing [...]

Resource is an appropriate word to use on this day, electoral college day, and here’s why. The use of [...]