I delivered what was probably the last of my Utah Humanities Council’s Public Square/Stegner talks in Escalante, Utah, on September 25th. My venue, the Escalante Arts Festival/Everett Ruess Da… more →
Stegner @ 100wrote 2 weeks ago: “Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: Next Week I’m “Officially” Middle Age But I Still Feel Fifteen I realize “middle age” is a general t … more →
wrote 1 month ago: As a child growing up in the Desert, (Utah, Nevada, California) places such as the Pacific Northwest … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Adam Johnson is a teacher at Stanford who I was stalking last year, after first noticing him on Char … more →
wrote 1 month ago: You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; yo … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Ffolkes, Oddly enough, I still don’t have any idea as to how I should go about starting these … more →
wrote 1 month ago: In Sharon Butala’s book The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature, the Saska … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Atop Broad Cove Mountain. Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Nova Scotia. (8 June 2012) Let … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I began blogging a couple of summers ago for an audience of approximately one. Me. I still sit here … more →
wrote 1 month ago: (Photo by Dennis Curran) Al volver la vista atrás, se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar, … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I was able to come to the Wallace Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan for my artist’s residency a … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Title: Crossing to Safety Author: Wallace Stegner Publisher: Random House Publishing Group ISBN: 978 … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Further to my post Prairie Beginnings, these are more images from my family archives, featuring the … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Apparently a modern US classic, Crossing to Safety is Larry Morgan’s narration of the life-long frie … more →
wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been reading Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety, which traces the course of a fri … more →
wrote 2 months ago: “He was born with the itch in his bones, Elsa knew. He was always telling stories of men who h … more →
wrote 2 months ago: In David Glassberg’s 2001 work, Sense of History, he says that to have a sense of history is to have … more →
wrote 2 months ago: “Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.” ~W … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Everything falling, fallen. I got the worst kind of disheartening news today, the sort of news that … more →