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A 1996 visit with Mike Mansfield.

Journal entries from my travels through South Africa in 2004.

It's an honor to be selected by Stowe Story Labs...

Adventures in a Gabonese taxi-brousse.

It's an honor to be once again recognized by the Mystic Film Festival...

I reach the water. It is not clean. Are any of us?

How have we accepted this word ‘exterminator’ as a good thing?

Films & readings about Cuban history and the US embargo.

The importance of writing to each other, by hand.

A critique of the TIME100 list and "influencer" culture.

Grappling with some disturbing family history in the Northwest.

"Technology is ideology." -Neil Postman

Nostalgia, Memory, and the White Frame on Missoula's Levasseur Street A response to ‘A home in witness’ published in The Pulp, May 5, 2026 Near the confluence of Rattlesnake Creek and the Clark Fork River in Missoula. A recent article in The Pulp about a cherished little blue house on Missoula's Levasseur Street stirred something familiar in me — the grief we feel when a beloved place is threatened by development. I've felt it myself, many times, in the 45 years since I first

Identity influences & potentially biases one's understanding of and outlook on the world.

Poetry has the incredible ability to soothe, inspire, heal and restore faith, creativity, and sanity in a life-sucking world. And even to set off a chain reaction of positivity and good deeds. This beautiful album found its way into my life, and produced the gift of a machine on which to enjoy it. Back in February, I was fortunate to stumble upon an event featuring former Montana poets laureate Sheryl Noethe and Mark Gibbons as well as David E. Thomas, and James Jay reading t

What is this Montana identity that I've clung to for nearly fifty years?

Megan Kate Nelson spoke at University of Montana recently about her new book The Westerners . A moderator asked her how we should frame American and Western identity in contrast to Fredrick Jackson Turner's problematic pioneer narrative. Her response, in paraphrase, was that we need to tell the histories of the people who have been left out of the white/male origin stories. Nelson highlighted how the people she profiles in the book exhibited the same qualities of determinati

In Mexico recently to attend a wedding, my first impression was the impossibility of the landscape to support the amount of life and rampant development occurring upon it. Water has to be trucked into this place, by a daily procession of (I'm guessing) scores of tanker trucks...I didn't get a precise count. In conversation with a wedding guest, I learned this comes from a regional aquifer that is being depleted faster than it is replenished. Great. The arroyos, visible from

Inspired by the 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, I made this one-minute doc. See previous post: Egret Visitation

This mockumentary was so much fun to make!