The Reader: A Film, and Questions Unanswered
The Reader, a film by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by David Hare, Produced by Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack So Kate …
Category Archives: Essays
Death Valley, April 2008
Death Valley in the morning, at least in early April, is cool. Enough for a second shirt or jacket. The …
Rough Guide to Climate Change
Jeff Masters at the wunderground likes this book. If you’re bewildered by the complexity of the climate change/global warming issue, …
Earth Under Fire
Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World is a comprehensive look at the world wide effects of …
Krugman: Conscience of a Liberal
I, with 50 -100 mile days in the car, often turn to audio books, from Lincoln’s speeches to Joyce’s Portrait …
Vacation: Canada Blogging
Well! Imagine my surprise, after four days of trying and failing I just got an internet connection from Southern Alberta, …
Vacation: 4th of July Rodeo in Jackson
The Fourth of July Rodeo in Jackson, Wyoming begins with John Wayne’s slow spoken rendition of “You Ask Me Why …
Vacation: Bear On the Trail
The cotton woods are in full shed these weeks along the Snake river riffling through Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Some breezy …
Vacation: Yellowstone Divide
We are feeling very divided today, crossing the Continental Divide three times in less than an hour — getting to …
Vacation: Time Train
Coming down the slope from the Bozeman pass east to Livingston, Montana, we look around, imagining. Once a shallow, wide …
Galapagos Islands
Every day in the Galapagos Islands is like a day in a glass bottomed boat through which we peer — …
Sunday Evening Moving On
It’s Sunday afternoon. Outside the hummingbirds are making last dashes at the feeders swung off the balcony rail. Once in …