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Field Notebook
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ideas
February 27, 2010
Word from southern Chile
Fortunately, for me at least, this was the night before the earthquake. The next morning I took the first flight out of Santiago, 20 hours before the region was hit by an 8.8...
November 16, 2009
Solitary toadness...
I become acutely aware of the piped in sound of chirping frogs.
November 15, 2009
Three mornings in the Adirondacks...
First dawn comes with crisp, clear light, boulders on the lake like granite bergs. Second morning is a fizzling rain on the water.
field notebook
Spring, 2009
Utah
I keep rehearsing in my head what it will feel like to walk straight to these cave-arches, congratulating the compass of my body, but poking down one bedrock draw after the next I see my compass is off...
Winter, 2008
Colorado
How many more children could we have? The curiosity will never end. They are each like opening Pandora's box...
Winter, 2008
Colorado
Late that night JT and I are running through the dark with torches outstretched, boots crashing through wind-hardened snow. We move fast, as if we had stolen this fire from the gods...
published stories
July 17, 2009
Perfect Quiet
Searching for refuge -- and, perhaps, health -- in a sickeningly loud world.
June 15, 2009
The Southwest's good ol' artifact boys
You might have an imaginary picture of the pot hunters and collectors, a crew of dirty, well-armed black-market privateers roving the desert (in the case of many Western pot hunters, you'd be right)...
June 09, 2009
The Memory of Water
It is a hard and beautiful way to
live, counting on ephemeral water holes
like this. You have to be ready for long
periods of waiting, traveling at night to
preserve water in your body, sleeping
in daytime shade...
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