Essays
Creative essays on life in the Anthropocene.
Letters from Home
Since 2015 I’ve been proud to be part of the stable of writers contributing to the Letters from Home column in the weekly Flagstaff Live. Collectively we explore experiences of life and home, in Flagstaff and elsewhere.
The Ends of the Earth
An essay on our often-perverse desires for the end, from the great journal Dark Mountain.
9 Things I Can’t Look Away From
You know how you catch yourself looking at the same sorts of things time and again? What’s your list? Here’s mine.
Stellar
Which of your backyard birds is the greatest character? Where I live it’s Steller’s jay. Here’s a portrait.
Terms of Engagement
We’ve tried denial, and now grudging acceptance. Neither has worked so well. Maybe Germany provides a better model for how to talk about–and effectively deal with–climate change. A column from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Long Returns
Where do you put your hope for the future? I put mine in seeds, and in exuberant boyhood. A column from Orion.
Working the Stone
Edited by Kurt Caswell, To Everything on Earth is an anthology that grew out of a terrific little nature-writing workshop sponsored by Texas Tech University. “Working the Stone” is my contribution.
Transmutations
Everything that’s discarded feeds something else, at least that’s how it’s supposed to work. A look at the circular economy from a backyard overlooking the tracks.
