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In Real Life
FLORIDA SUMMER is in full swing when my mother gets her first smartphone. Palms sway and a fluorescent pool gleams beyond the porch where we sit, she trying to decipher hee Continue reading
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Lay of the Land
Salmon Homecoming
TODAY, I’m watching salmon mating. On the banks of the Sandy River, the naturalist explains that I am looking at a female salmon building a nest, but all I see is Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Middle of Nowhere
THERE IS NO ROAD, hasn’t been a road since Gerlach, that crust of a town where we turned from pavement to playa, to hairline-fractured hardpan Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Prairie Chicken Marathon
I DRIVE OUT on Highway 10, leaving Houston behind — past Buc-ee’s gas station with the “cleanest restrooms in America” Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Honoring Trees
A first-of-its-kind art exhibit, Hemlock Hospice, tells the story of hemlocks ravaged by tree-killing insects. Continue reading