Dispatch from Macheros, Michoacán

I spent a few weeks in Mexico last month and had the privelege to visit the forested mountains on the border between the states of Michoacán and Mexico. It was early December and millions of monarch butterflies had just arrived there from all the eastern half of North America to roost for the winter. They…

A Season with Steamboat

On a bright, cool, and crisp Autumn morning in Wyoming earlier this year, I was driving up to work filled with a sense of nervous anticipation I used to feel regularly on such mornings. I don't watch much college football or playoff baseball anymore but the nostalgia was welcome. On this day, my excitement was…

A Year in Reading – Part III

  Spring into Never Summer I. In early June, the school year ended and I bid farewell to the windswept prairie outside Vista Academy and the quiet paths along Sand Creek.  My idea to aimlessly tour the western United States via bicycle was quashed for the time being by some lingering hip issues so I…