GRETEL MARYSDATTER ENCK

I watched my mother out the bathroom window. She was pulling weeds around the goldfish pond and paid me no attention. I climbed up and...

Partly Fiction is the title of a new documentary produced by a friend about the actor Harry Dean Stanton. I missed catching the film at...

It’s always a happy time when I come home to find the latest High Country News in the mailbox, and a happy Saturday activity to bike to a...

A Vacation in Four Acts Act I: “It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, and the major lift—the baffled king composing...

I was taking a break from the world today and wondering if I needed to add fish back into my diet when I was transported back to my...

Had a little getaway last weekend with my Friday off, down to northern New Mexico. My stated goal was to visit the Abiquiu home of...

Our purpose for visiting Lake Clark was to see the cabin built by Dick Proenneke. Born in Iowa, he worked as a farmhand and rancher...

This past week I made a last-minute but extremely welcome work trip to Utah (Bryce Canyon and Moab) and in the meantime took a trip down...

Last year we had the fire on Oak Creek, and my house survived. Saturday we had the 100 year flood, and although my house is still...