We found ourselves on top of this bluff, only a short hike from the car. Canada was just a couple miles to the north. Lake Superior 30 to the east. A BWCA lake stretched out before and below us.
It was quiet and lonely, surprisingly so, being just a couple hundred yards from a wide spot [...]
My friend Sam is thru-hiking the Pacific Northwest Trail this summer, a 1,200 mile trek from the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park to the Pacific Ocean. I mentioned Sam on this blog once before, when he thru-hiked Minnesota’s Superior Hiking Trail back in 2005.
This trip is a serious undertaking. Sam started walking on June [...]
We got snow. Three or so inches of the lightest, fluffiest snow fell last night and suddenly the world which had been brown and sickly for so long was white and soft. Corners were rounded and in today’s sun it sparkled like infinite diamonds. As the breeze tossed it from the trees, the very air [...]
For Lene
There is that feeling almost everyone had when a small child: in a big store with your mother, you walking along, minding your own business, perhaps playing in racks of clothes or causing some other mischief. Suddenly, Mom is out-of-sight. Perhaps you walked up to another lady, so tall you can’t see past her [...]
Rosie and I wanted to get out for a walk in some woods on Sunday afternoon, but we didn’t have the time to drive very far to get it or to go for a very long walk. The morning before I had gone to a meeting at the visitor center at the Minnesota Valley Wildlife [...]
Yesterday morning I woke after a short night and with a bothered head. I didn’t give in to my pillow and blankets but got up to coffee, water and a friend passed out on the couch.
We sat for a while recalling the night, a funny night celebrating a wedding at a studio space in the [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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