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Alaska bound! 1 REI pack = 50 pounds, exactly 1 portable office = 25 pounds, plus breakfast 1 plane ticket + 1 pair hiking boots + an insatiable penchant for the written word = 6 weeks in The [...]

I don’t often identify with the word “patriotic” but that’s how I feel when I listen to someone like Lyle Lovett. Consider his song titled “If I Had a Boat,” which begins with these lines: If I [...]

I’ve been going down to the lake after sunset, letting its quiet sloshing against the sandy shores ready me for this next transition. I have always been a dependable person. But glimpse my inner [...]

Check out my latest short-short, “Paddy the Albino,” published on Electric Literature’s blog, The Outlet. This story went live today, then got picked up by Fiction Daily, which will publish it [...]

It’s one week to departure for The Last Frontier and the Brooks Range is officially out. KB and I will have to backpack through the caribou migration a different year, when an early, cold fall is [...]

In the course of one week their responses roll in: No from The Sun. No from Ploughshares. No from Serving House Journal. No from the Lorian Hemingway Contest. Yes from Ox-Box Residency Program [...]

Fact: The U.S. spends $600 million per day on the war in Afghanistan. Fact: The calculated “human cost” of this war is the death of 2 U.S. soldiers per day. Fact: By September of this year there [...]

The thing I miss the most about having the filmmaker at Interlochen is that I had someone here who knew me well; someone who knew more of the full picture, my past, present, and future. We ended [...]

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[Many thanks for your kind sleep wishes. I was granted 10 hours of sleep last night, aided by 5mg of melatonin.] That quickly, I have shifted gears. It’s 2 weeks to departure and I’m taking [...]