Wonder is not enough
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): Empty robin’s egg filled with ants, doing their thing. I launched this newsletter...
How alive is alive?
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): Hello Newsletter Friends! Covid has finally arrived in our house, and since this...
Root where you’re planted
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): Despite my joy at discovering the Jardin Punk ethic, I’ve spent the last two weeks...
Le Jardin Punk
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): What lies beneath? Cheap greenhouse I bought years ago, with seedling trays on heat mats...
I thought I was ready, but I am not.
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): Angry chickens in the snow. I was going to write this week about Lanny, the Max Porter...
“Are You Making Distinctions?”
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): Sheldrick Trust keeper with a very small baby elephant. Photo credit: Reister.com Like...
Book of the Month: The World My Wilderness
Here's what I hope will be the first of a series of monthly essays on books. These aren't quite reviews, and I'm trying to keep them from being too academic....
Stories We Tell Ourselves
Here is my latest essay (if you’d rather read it online click here): First snow on the Absarokas, from our cabin. Why this wilderness? Here in our town on...
Reading Roundup 2024
I just published the following essay (read it online here):Slightly blurry closeup of my Christmas tree this year … Hello hello! I have a longer essay I’m...
Make no mistake, it’s a disaster
I just published the following essay (read it online here): The last time this happened, I went to Yellowstone for the day. I wanted to hang out with the...
Wheatfields of Gentrification
I just published the following essay (read it online here): Last weekend, I had family in town so we went over to Bozeman to look for the Utah Peach Guys...
“Fire Season”
I just published the following essay (read it online here): “Fire Season” Red sun rising Here we are. Again. Skies opaque with smoke, eyes watering, sneezing...
Backdrop Series 2: Violence and the Picturesque
I just published the following essay (read it online here): Generic picture taken off the internet of a horse with a jaw brand The Fourth of July is our...
Backdrop Series
I just published the following essay (read it online here): “What to [the land] is the 4th of July?” Flotilla of rafts with giant American flags, playing...
Crush
If you’d rather read this online, click here Hello! I’m still here. What happened? May is gone? We’re well into June? At any rate, there was too much rain,...
The Ten Thousand Things
Welcome to Getting Dirty: Material Entanglement in the Anthropocene, a newsletter about the things of the world, how we think about them, and what that means...
The Act of Looking
I just published the following essay (read it online here): Magnolias in the Palais Royale I went to Paris for a week this month. It’s been 20 years since my...
Thinking With Animals
I just published the following essay (read it online here): Not the bear I saw, a similar bear off the internet As I was loading Hank-dog into the car after...
The Second Body
I just published the following essay (read it online here): Coffee with the neighbors We woke up one morning last week to the sound of cow elk chirping. We...
Migration complete
Hello lovely paid subscribers! This is just a very quick note to let you know that your paid subs should have been moved over now -- So you should get the...
LivingSmall is Getting Dirty
I just published the following essay (read it online here): What are we doing here? What’s going on? We’re leaving Substack To avoid monetizing white...