I was at a meeting this week about public transportation in my town—what we have of it—and during one of our many tangents into how we could actually get viable transit throughout the valley, at… Read more

Walking composition “I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person and if I’m not careful I could be a… Read more

Walking composition “She felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her father; and they were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts… Read more

Last week, thanks to a birthday gift of time and a guide, I went elk hunting for the first time and clipped my tag at the end of a long, frigid day with biting winds.… Read more

Walking composition “Violence may begin as a contest over resources, but it often ends as a contest over meaning.” —Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn (as quoted in Lauret Savoy’s Trace) It finally snowed this morning,… Read more

In the third book of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there’s a scene that has stuck with me as a good lesson for many times and circumstances, but especially… Read more

Walking composition “Angry people are not always wise.” ― Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice I was copy editing a 5th-grade teacher’s manual last week in which one of the unit goals was to have students… Read more

Walking composition “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” —Iris Murdoch What happens to a word when people start talking about it as having lost all meaning? When it… Read more

Walking composition “As we’ve come to understand, there is no such thing as the unknown. Only the temporarily hidden.” —James Tiberius Kirk, Star Trek: Beyond I keep smearing chokecherry residue on my laptop. —- We… Read more

Walking composition “While many will agree that colonialism is wrong, they cannot imagine a future without it.” —Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future Last weekend I took a kiddo to Yellowstone National Park with… Read more