Explorations of the Self and the Wild

Nature

  • To Climb Mountains

    When you are in the mountains, you find out who you really are.  Any mistake I make…

  • Rogue Revelation

    Thirty-plus years ago (YIKES!) my parents did something that changed the course of my life: they…

  • March Madness

    March Madness

      This is the view I long for come March. It has always been this way…

  • Don’t Turn Down the Boatman

    Don’t Turn Down the Boatman

    I am not a flagrant rule breaker. Nor am I particularly spontaneous. But there is something…

  • Ascent Magazine publishes photo and short essay

    Ascent Magazine publishes photo and short essay

    Ascent, the literary magazine of Concordia College, recently asked to publish a photo I took while on…

  • Drombeg – The First Stone

    Drombeg – The First Stone

    I’d never really thought of myself as the fairy sort, but there was no denying the…

  • Culture Shock

    Culture Shock

    Since I’ve been home from Ireland, people have often asked me about “culture shock”. Nearly half…

  • Finding Home Far Away

    Finding Home Far Away

    I reached into my pants pocket today and pulled out a small, hard chunk of earth …