Walking composition “Scheming on a thing, that’s a mirageI’m trying to tell you now, it’s sabotage.” — “Sabotage,” Beastie Boys Sunday night my daughter and I folded ourselves into the car to try to find… Read more

“Dystopia isn’t where things go wrong. Dystopia is when things go wrong, and nothing can be done about it.” —Cory Doctorow A few upcoming talks and activities: I’ll be giving a research-oriented presentation on walking… Read more

Walking composition “Some things just ain’t easy to repairThe person who came here was brokenCan you fix it, can you care?” — “What They Call Us,” Fever Ray Last month I pulled a very sad… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from William Blackstone’s 1753 book Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, Book II: Of the… Read more

Essay I finished my master’s degree in creative writing a couple of decades ago, when I was in my late twenties. With a few exceptions it was an off-putting experience: the program felt designed to… Read more

Walking composition “‘Things have been going wrong for a lot longer than you think,’ Alden said. ‘It’s just that they’ve finally gone wrong enough for you to notice.’” —Caught in Crystal, Patricia C. Wrede The… Read more

Walking composition “Being independent of Nature was considered one of the defining characteristics of freedom itself. Only those people who had thrown off the shackles of their environment were thought to be endowed with historical… Read more

Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from Henry George’s 1879 book Progress & Poverty, Part VII: Justice of the Remedy, Chapter I: The Injustice… Read more

Walking composition “I will not forget where I come from. I will craft my own drum. Gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing. I will not be played. I will not lend… Read more

Walking composition “Like eagle rounding out the morning Inside us. We pray that it will be done In beauty. In beauty.” —from “Eagle Poem,” Joy Harjo Last week I stood outside the middle school playground… Read more