Essay Several people have sent me notices of the Wall Street Journal Facebook investigation and, although I haven’t read it yet, I do appreciate it. (I’m not putting in a link because it’s paywalled, but… Read more

Walking composition “He thinks he is presenting things as they are, but what he really presents is his own essentially vulgar personality.” —Willa Cather, 1919, in a letter to her brother My younger sister and… Read more

Walking composition “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.” — Georgia O’Keefe (h/t to Annabel Abbs, author of Windswept, for that one)… Read more

Essay A couple weekends ago my family went to a cabin at the American Prairie Reserve. For those who haven’t heard of the APR, it’s an interesting private initiative that started as a World Wildlife… Read more

Walking conversation! “Walking prompts a cascade of changes.” —Annabel Abbs This is going to be a short post—no links of stuff to read, for once—to share the information I just received for an event tomorrow… Read more

Walking composition “The easiest way to stare reality in the face and not utterly lose your shit is to believe that you have control over it. If you believe you have control, then you believe… Read more

Walking composition “That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.” —Ada Lovelace, 1815-1852 I am reading a tremendously good book, one of those books that reminds you (or me… Read more

Walking composition “People are constantly forced to choose between having freedom and having success and stability; freedom with suffering or happiness without freedom. The majority choose the latter.” —Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: An Oral History… Read more

Walking composition “Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass Friday afternoon I was working on a textbook that was teaching 5th-graders about suffixes. I like my copy editing job most… Read more

Walking composition “If England is full, it is full of space. And the walls that hide it.” —Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass Last night after dinner my family and I went down to a… Read more