Enduring and Remembering

Enduring and Remembering

JANUARY 16, 2021      Did I say holy goodness? Holy crap. What a year. I’ve got scant appetite for describing what it’s been like for me, because chances are it was worse for you, and I honor that. Difficult for everybody, but my family and most of my...
The Big One

The Big One

MAY 1, 2020 So here we are, amid a global pandemic of a disease called COVID-19, caused by a virus known as SARS-CoV-2. It’s terrible, and many people are suffering—suffering the disease, and suffering economic and social hardships related to the shutdowns...

Loss, Birds and Hope

November 6, 2019 On the second floor of the Metropolitan Club in New York, overlooking Fifth Avenue, is an ornate, high-ceilinged room with gray marble fireplaces, burgundy drapes, Renaissance-flavored murals, and many yards of decorative woodwork painted gold. It’s...
Sphinx

Sphinx

February 18, 2019 Forty-five years in Montana, hiking the trails, skiing the mountains, driving the back roads, and I had never caught a glimpse of a mountain lion.  It’s not that they are rare here—they aren’t.  They live a pretty good life and at...

October 2, 2018

     The working life of a writer is solitary. You sit alone in a room, hour after hour, day after day, and you create pages. It takes years to write a book (five years, for me, is about the minimum on a complex nonfiction project), and once that book...