John Muir – Not I

Writing From the Side of a Mountain

Prelude to WA: Climbing Mountains “You may be a little cold some nights on mountain tops above the timber line, but you will see the stars and by and by you can sleep enough in your town bed, or at least in your grave. – John Muir, “Yellowstone, North Dakota” an essay in Wilderness EssaysContinue reading “Writing From the Side of a Mountain”

More Than Flying

{The Longest} Day 2.1 AJ sat in a hard plastic shell of a chair at gate 8 in the United terminal at O’Hare Airport, reluctant to peer into the world around her. It was 6:30 a. m. in her mind and the atmosphere was still a brick wall of sensory overload. B and the boysContinue reading “More Than Flying”