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For one night, the high desert turned on top of itself. And the wind howled like a train careening off its tracks. And the cattle circled for warmth, frigid bodies pressed into the shape of black [...]

Very early in the morning… a fleet of Jentel animals awoke. They mashed and fried, frittered and carved, baked and stirred, whipped and thickened… And the humans came to eat the [...]

My writing, reading, and submitting rhythm have been feeling a little off ever since I arrived at Jentel. I understand that a major reason for this is the fact that having my foot in a cast means [...]

The temperature ranged between 4 and 10 degrees today, with overnight lows for tonight expected to hit negative 7. CC, the photographer, hopped into her car at dusk for her daily drive to the top [...]

Three of my war short-shorts were published by Future Cycle Flash today. These stories are available online right now and will be published in a paperback anthology next year. I’m very excited to [...]

Yesterday, the high plains of Wyoming pulsed with the most enchanting, electric gray color I’ve ever seen. Wind roared across the prairie for hours, carrying sugar-fine granules of snow that [...]

Folks might be wondering why I keep talking about the “gumbo roads” of high desert Wyoming. For an explanation, I look no further than my trusty dictionary of landscape terminology, Home Ground, [...]

Tonight’s cloud and light show made it apparent that the grand state of Wyoming invented the color yellow. At sunset, the Big Horn high peaks looked volcanic. Wisps of clouds expanded and shrunk [...]

If the views don’t get you, the names will. Big Horn National Forest is just a stone’s throw from Jentel and the high peaks a little further (seen in the distance here). This photo was taken by a [...]

Ok, fine—so I had a moment. I’d left at 4am and flown Asheville to Charlotte to Denver to Sheridan. I was tired. My foot was still broken. And my cough still lingered. I’d unpacked everything, [...]