W.E.B. Du Bois 9 min read
Yet now he was alone; the empty night was closing all about him here in a strange land, and he was afraid.
Thuy-vy Nguyen 6 min read
Time when we are unexpectedly alone can be difficult but, at least for some of us, it can also be a blessing in disguise.
Chip Brown 40 min read
It was a West Coast group with pronounced New Age tendencies and plenty of mystical experience.
Yvon Chouinard 6 min read
IN MY three-quarters of a century of stupid stunts, I’ve had enough near-death experiences that I’ve accepted the fact that...
Daniel Duane 17 min read
He damned himself as we scurried down the path: “My poor neglected wife,” he said, “to be married to such a delinquent malingerer.”
Michelle Nijhuis 19 min read
I DON’T EVEN REMEMBER my first ride. When I was a young teenager, growing up in southern Oregon, my dad...
Rick Ridgeway 18 min read
Now, nearly two decades later, I was in the same place with Jonathan’s daughter, who had just turned twenty, and who was with me not on a journey but a pilgrimage.
Brad Rassler 7 min read
IN JANUARY, I came across a snippet about a deadly virus cutting a swathe through China’s Hubei Province. I was...
Tom Rosenbauer 17 min read
THIS IS a true story. It’s a tale of unusually large brown trout, sewage, weird mayflies, floods and droughts. If...
Michael P. Cohen 11 min read
When I see these stoned counters in other people’s houses, they seem, in their shape and their function, like places of business or places of death.
Brad Rassler 56 min read
Immortality of narrative is dependent on the mortality of beings.
Dick Dorworth 10 min read
Most people assume they are capable of grasping the concepts of a minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade and even a century, and how their lives are lived and measured in those terms.
Shane O'Mara 5 min read
It is in the freeing of the mind and brain from the moment-to-moment control of walking, while at the same time covering considerable distance.
Brad Rassler 32 min read
“My name is Karoline Conradi Øksnevad,” she said, the words devoid of much inflection. But then, with greater emphasis: “You don’t know me. I am both no one and everyone.”
Christopher Ketcham 5 min read
WHEN I’M IN BOISE I drink with Brian Ertz at the bar in the basement of the Idanha Hotel, where...
Brad Rassler 19 min read
“THE JOKE IS ‘Hey, I’ve climbed Everest; now I’m a motivational speaker,’” Conrad Anker told me after I observed that...
Michael P. Branch 11 min read
EVERY TIME Chautauqua season rolls around, I feel compelled to rant about this bizarre cultural practice, which Teddy Roosevelt once...
Nancy Pfeiffer 31 min read
A calafate seed was growing inside me. The idea was simple: Return to Coyhaique, buy a horse, and head south.