Last summer, Tonya and I were traveling through some remote New Mexico landscape, trying as always, to escape the grip of 21st Century “civilization,” or at least the aspects of it we find the most loathsome. Out there, on those…
PREFACE: The events in Ferguson, Missouri remind me of a moment in my own brief career in law enforcement, as a ranger with the National Park Service at Arches NP. I wrote this account in 2005, years after the confrontation…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about St. Louis. It was surprising how long the news lingered on that Midwestern city this summer, after the shooting of Michael Brown. Surprising that we all lingered there, as a country, for a span of…