Goodbye Katie Lee

Goodbye Katie Lee

Katie Lee, the 98 year old Arizona activist whose favorite word was fuck, died in her sleep on Wednesday, November 1st. Katie had dedicated her life trying to take down the dam that had drowned the place she loved most — Glen Canyon — the contoured caverns and seductive streams that… Read More

THE DEATH OF TRUTH

THE DEATH OF TRUTH

General Kelly may bemoan that little is held sacred these days, but where he should be most concerned in in the corruption of the very doctrine he sent men into battle to fight for.

I See Fear

I See Fear

How much more could we be if we stopped building walls and started to reach out to one another? How much more could we do if we fed our more curious nature rather than our more craven one?

I am a Snowflake

I am a Snowflake

According to The Guardian magazine, “Poor Little Snowflake” is the defining insult of 2016. The term emerged out of Brexit and the US election and is mainly lobbed by the right at what they consider to be the thin-skinned behavior and comments of the left. In September, the Guardian article… Read More

Our President Elect is a Germaphobe

Our President Elect is a Germaphobe

What I learned from watching Trump’s press conference today is that our president would not have made Russian prostitutes pee on his bed because he is a “germaphobe.” That’s right. Still, if the allegations are true, the 36-page report detailing his relationship with Putin and as well as Trump’s kinky sexual… Read More

A Green Eyebrow

A Green Eyebrow

Looking through the window at the trees and the fog. The flush of new grass that comes when these Pacific rains return. Peaceful rains. Feeding the thin strip of green which clings to the western coast. An eyebrow of green. A parenthesis. A lover spooned against a mountain range and… Read More

A Month On A River

A Month On A River

One year ago. Middle of a month long journey. 290 miles on the Colorado River’s cold, red-silt water. 290 miles of a canyon spanning back 1.8 billion years. 30 days of wonder and delight. 30 nights of watching the moon grow full and then wane. Falling stars, shooting rapids, climbing… Read More

How To Deal With our New Reality

How To Deal With our New Reality

There is a place in the Grand Canyon called Red Wall Cavern. It is this place, featured in these pictures taken early on in my trip through the Grand Canyon last winter. When John Wesley Powell first saw the cavern on his expedition down the river, the one-armed explorer thought… Read More

Advice to Trump – How to help America

Advice to Trump – How to help America

Dear President Elect Donald Trump, I know how you can become one of the greatest presidents in US history. It is simple. It is straightforward, and it is something only YOU can do. Not Hillary Clinton. Not Paul Ryan. Not Mike Pence. YOU. Here’s how. 1) Forget about making friends…. Read More