There’s a second—perhaps you’ve felt it—while the component you noted might make you glad starts making you strange. A guy wakes up at 35 in […]
The roar of the gang is a fading echo. The stadium lighting fixtures, once blinding, now cast solid, lengthy, lonely shadows throughout the empty pitch. […]
You’ve smelled it before. That particular, acrid sweetness of paper curling in flame—the Library of Alexandria, maybe, or a novel left too close to a […]
It’s March. A lawn warbler sits immobile on a reed in southern Germany. The sun has dipped beneath the horizon. Stars are out, but the […]
For twenty years, I carried two bags. One becomes a camera bag, worn and weathered, filled with lenses that had visible savannahs and rainforests. The […]
For over fifteen years, I’ve worked in the delicate space between childlike wonder and biological reality. My career, spanning zoological education, wildlife rehabilitation, and designing […]
For twenty-five years, my boots have been muddy. They’ve trodden the sodden peat of vanishing bathrooms, crunched the desiccating soil of encroaching deserts, and slipped […]
For over twenty years, my life has been framed via the sound of snapping twigs in dense rainforests, the misty blow of a whale in […]
