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 lying in bed in late March of 2020 I had the idea to buy Tesla stock.

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

Joplin blew out a hit. The smoke hung and twisted in the sunlight, and he studied it there, looking for an answer or sign.

Journal entries from a weeklong desert trip.

The other day I drove over to the bank and closed my one and only credit account. I was inspired by Daniel Suelo.

I don’t know how best to tell you this, but you’re wrong. You’re wrong about me, and I fear you are wrong about the world.

Michael Pollan’s contribution to the psychedelic renaissance reinforces the very power structures that the countercultural psychonauts opposed.

When David Shay began smoking spice, he believed he was choosing a safe, legal alternative to marijuana.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.

A life unfolds in weeks, days, seconds, even infinitesimal moments. But it's made sense of and recalled in chapters. And chapters span years.

A profile of photographer Ryan Muirhead.

What is gained when you miss the shot, what is lost when you get it?

I've been thinking lately that we humans aren't as complex and mysterious as I'd originally supposed.

I went camping and the moon was full and when it reached in the sky to eleven o’clock I abandoned my fire and walked.
 

Misfits threaten to diversify Provo, Utah, with The Boxcar Studios—an atelier and community events center.