What do you do when reality is too much to handle? Geddes woke up in a strange room. It was clearly a motel room. There were two beds, a TV, a bathroom done up in tile and fixtures from the…
Grippo: Blackout on the Open Road …by Paul Vlachos
Author: stiles
WANDERING THE COVID WEST: In Search of Herb Ringer—A Photo Essay …by Jim Stiles
Tonya and I live in what is nowadays one of the most remote parts of the country. The High Plains are not known for their scenic splendor (though they are scenic to the discerning eye) and tourist traffic is next…
Marking Time …by Damon Falke
It was around the first of October that the leaves on the birch trees began to blow away. I looked out of the window one morning and saw that leaves had gathered at the side of the road. I saw…
“(Still) ‘Enough Rope’”: (A Reporter’s Moab Memories. 1978-1984) #5 KILLING THE VETS …By Bill Davis
What’s the biggest mistake you ever made? No, not that kind; I mean work related. If you’ve reached A Certain Age, you might even have trouble picking the one. Not me; mine shines out like a beacon against the…
Kayenta, Then and Now …By Harvey Leake
“We had spent one night at Kayenta. No one could be even that short a time in the Wetherills’ house, hearing them talk, seeing the beautiful things hanging on their walls, without catching some of the riches to be found…
CULTURAL CONFUSION: The Designated Pahaana …by Joseph Day
Pahaana, that’s the Hopi word for white Americans of European ancestry, white folks, and that’s me. Being one of the few Pahaanas married to a Hopi woman and practicing the ancient Hopi custom of living at your wife’s place means…
The Underneath …by Brandon Hill
I like loneliness and the solitude of fishing – of getting away from crowds – to escape our world and into that of another. I am a naturally anxious person. A person whose mind swells with “what if’s” at every…
A COVID-19 YEAR in MOAB, UTAH
Everyone was expecting another typical Moab Spring. A year earlier it had looked like this… and then… For weeks, Moab looked like this. A post-apocalyptic ghost town. Moab local Kerry Lange took these two shots from a spot on Main…
(From the Archives) KEN SLEIGHT REMEMBERS: THE DEATH OF GLEN CANYON
Note: this article first appeared in the October/November 1999 Zephyr… When the Sierra Club council, years ago, turned its back on Glen Canyon and essentially permitted the building of the Glen Canyon dam, I was stunned and bitter beyond belief.…
COVID DIVERSIONS #1: MY HISTORIC REFRIGERATOR …by Jim Stiles
Tonya and I have been together for more than a decade now. Being married has brought me more happiness than I deserve but it’s also been revelatory. I was a bachelor for most of my life and apparently, according to my…