Wilderness words

Minnesota Naturalist magazine cover

My words show up in a local newspaper, and I reflect on the lineage of wilderness advocacy writing.



The Firegrate Review

Firegrate Review logo

Submit your writing to a new chapbook I’m editing and the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness is publishing.



How far we’ve come

Dawes illustration from Daytrotter

The band Dawes has been featured by music website Daytrotter. The four live tunes are unsurprisingly excellent, but the stream-of-consciousness essay about the band, its music, and life that accompanies the music is worth the visit alone.



The pleasure of the story

Being Wrong book cover

It’s possible that everything you’ll ever need to know about storytelling is contained in this interview with Ira Glass of the radio show This American Life.