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This is one of the questions I pose in the Montana Questionnaire ... a survey I created to get some insight on how others frame Montana identity for themselves. There's no right answer. What does living in Montana mean to me, right now? I am living in my childhood home, amid the family debris of forty years, familiar and comfortable, though the suburban solitude doesn't suit me at midlife. I am here enacting a duty to maintain a family place, a foothold we wish to preserve

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

conspiratours.com Sunday, March 8th, 12:00 PM AMC West Shore Theatre #1 - Tampa, FL Tickets This mockumentary was so much fun to make! I am grateful to Marc Dahl, our team leader, for bringing together a wonderfully funny and creative team for the 48 Hour Film Project (2023). It was also Marc who secured the amazing location for this film-- Hillsborough Lodge No. 25 . Our Masonic chaperones ended up with lead parts in the film! The film had a successful festival run, winning

18 Jul 2001 | Continued On Saturday, I met up with "Tex" at the public radio station in Ann Arbor to play some of my Nashville bluegrass bootlegs over the air on his Country Western show. It was so much fun!! Thanks Tex! Now I want my own radio show! Missoula > Yellowstone/Tetons > Wyoming > Colorado > Santa Fe > Austin > Luckenbach > San Antonio > New Orleans > Memphis > Nashville > Cleveland ..... > Colorado Monday morning, I left Michigan at 7am to meet Dad at the Rock 'n

18 Jul 2001 Missoula > Yellowstone/Tetons > Wyoming > Colorado > Santa Fe > Austin > Luckenbach > San Antonio > New Orleans > Memphis > Nashville > Detroit > Cleveland ..... > Colorado Hello friends, A sadness came over me yesterday as I left Cleveland, OH...the last stop on my whirlwind musical tour of America. I've had such an incredible journey and it's very hard to leave it behind. I don't miss New York. I don't miss my apartment or my stuff. Aside from being a bit tens

[The Memphis > Nashville portion of this roadtrip log is missing. I'll add it here when I find it! For now, some pics.] Missoula > Yellowstone/Tetons > Wyoming > Colorado > Santa Fe > Austin > Luckenbach > San Antonio > New Orleans > Memphis > Nashville > Cleveland..... > Colorado We visited Graceland; hoped (and failed) to catch a glimpse of Al Green at his Memphis church... In Nashville, we met up with Blake, and saw some great shows...including these young fellas from Old

07 Jul 2001 | Continued Next day, it was on to New Orleans (that was yesterday). Stopped in Lafayette at Murphs Old Time Grocery for Shrimp Po Boys. Oh. My. God. I've died and gone to Louisiana. We met up with Matt, our host, who just happens to live in the old J&M Studios building in the French Quarter--home to many early recordings of Ray Charles, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. In this very building where I'm sitting right now. Matt and his beautiful f

07 July 2001 | Continued Next day we went "toobing" (as the locals spell it) on the Guadalupe river--the water is a beautiful green color and the perfect temperature. When we got off the river we headed to Austin for a Pat Green concert at the world famous Stubb's BBQ (you can buy the sauce in the grocery store). Missoula > Yellowstone/Tetons > Wyoming > Colorado > Santa Fe > Austin > Luckenbach > San Antonio > New Orleans > Memphis > Nashville > Detroit > Cleveland..... > C

07 July 2001 | Greetings! I'm sorry it's been so long since I've reported from the road...but I've had some amazing tour guides through San Antonio, Austin and now New Orleans--haven't even had a moment to sit at the computer! Where to begin... Missoula > Yellowstone/Tetons > Wyoming > Colorado > Santa Fe > Austin > Luckenbach > San Antonio > New Orleans > Memphis > Nashville > Detroit > Cleveland..... > Colorado I drove a long day from El Paso to San Antonio and a

26 Jun 2001 | Continued I had the whirlwind tour of Yellowstone, even making a stupid mistake upon leaving Old Faithful and driving 20 miles in the direction I had just come before realizing my error...duh. I'm trying to document everything with pictures, but some just fly by the car before I can get the camera out. ...the Sasquatch Taxidermy place, the big sign on the side of a barn that said, "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks." Priceless. But just memories now. I'll

It was summer 2001. I was 28, living in NYC, but found myself in Montana after my grandmother's funeral. I had a few free weeks before needing to be in southern Colorado for a job cooking on a ranch. So, I decided to buy a car (huh?) and take a trip through the South, exploring music venues as I went... because, why not? Missoula > Yellowstone/Tetons > Wyoming > Colorado > Santa Fe > Austin > Luckenbach > San Antonio > New Orleans > Memphis > Nashville > Detroit > Cleveland.

Dear Friends, I thought I'd send out my holiday greetings during this season of giving thanks. How are you? I am thankful for your friendship...

I'd like to thank the organizers and jurors of the Mystic Film Festival for awarding my short script The Bitter End with the Grand Prize...

Trash collected in the Pattee Canyon picnic area (Lolo National Forest) before our day of filming began. This fall, I found myself...

I really enjoy the act of seeing. A setting, the light, the colors cause scenes and stories to pop to mind, complete. Look at those...

It's an honor to be recognized by the Mystic Film Festival as a finalist in their Short Narrative Screenplay competition with my project...

Moving from one place to another is disruptive. Wrapping up, clearing out, closing down, leaving finally. Traveling. Physical arriving....

I've been spending some time in a small Montana town. A place where history is alive in memory, where the word 'townsfolk' springs to...