I had come to depend on it in the way that only a walking stick can be depended on.

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” wrote Albert Camus. There is also at least one truly serious philosophical wonder.

Imposter syndrome may indicate you’re off track. Don’t “act as if” or “fake it till you make it.” Pause, and reconsider your course.

A simple guide for—and personal account of—harvesting and smoking red osier dogwood, or what Native Americans and pioneers of the Ohio Valley called kinnikinnick.

Erik tells me he’s thinking of eating psychedelic mushrooms, something he hasn’t yet done in life. He thinks he’ll “microdose,” he says.

I must talk him out of this insanity.

Today is Earth Day. I purchased a bike shop.

While on the road through Flagstaff, Arizona, my van goes caput. I pause to record impressions.

Journal entries from a weeklong desert trip.