A Series on Communication After a somewhat difficult morning with our six month old baby who disagreed with us about the level of daylight that should accumulate before starting our day, my husband and I had a rough conversation or two before he left for work at my dad’s business, where he is a senior engineer.  […]

Some of us who wait, bellies full of dawn, some leaf through the research, dig through the lore, the impressions of the past, the promises of the future… I do none of these things. I don’t know why not. I wait only. I sit with dawn swelling my belly, so large I cannot fold in […]

If you survive the journey, the hands of a desert god wave to greet you. First you must trust that there will be water, for you are not of the desert. You are a guest, a stranger: you drink water without knowing where it comes from. Your ancestors wallowed in water. The hands of their […]

Hi Campbell, I hope you had a lovely, relaxing holiday break. I am sorry this has taken so long. I have been waiting to hear back from my mentor, Sean Murphy, hoping to send his greetings with my answers. He is an award-winning published author and a trainer of young writers, as well as a […]

  July 23rd, 2016, City of Rocks National Monument, Idaho Dried wild onion with our camping pass. Having the first moment for myself for a couple of days, I am breaking the breezy evening peace with country music played over my flat-sounding phone speakers. But after a day spent in the car, making the endless […]

We spent the first night of our trip along a tributary of the Green River called Black’s Fork in the southwestern reaches of Wyoming, just short of the Utah border. We pulled off Scenic Byway 530 onto a dirt track worn by oil exploration and drove in a half-mile to a pullout looking toward the […]

I started thinking about this today while I was discussing ancient myths with my seventh grade students. When you hear a mythical story, are you knowing the celebrities of yore? Totally. Humans weren’t all of struck by a sudden fascination with larger than life characters when cameras and film are invented- no way! People followed the […]

Two mornings ago, I was standing atop Long’s Peak with, oh, thirty other people. Long’s is a Colorado monarch, the northernmost fourteener of over fifty in my home state. It’s a darn tough, technical, mountain climb, and obsessively crowded.  Most of the folks on the summit were like me, in their twenties or thirties, many […]