Peregrine Falcon at Point Lobos, Big Sur, CA You won't understand the feeling at first because you've never experienced anything like it....

Inside a Palisades Tahoe Snowcat with a veteran groomer Jeff Morrison, Groomer Have you ever wondered what it’s like to ride in a 600...

Sunset Happy Hour at High Camp delivered more than we expected, including a rare phenomenon: a halo, rainbow-like ring around the...

“And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’” ~ Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime Our beliefs, standards, friendships,...

A glimpse of the marvelous Moon Over Headwall Express A man is climbing up Tram Face above Olympic Valley, and as he passes through the...

Once I was nothing but a twig. The softest breeze rocked my world. I’ve been stepped on, defiled, and worse, ignored. In winters, I...

What can a book say? Can it utter a single word? No, not one. And yet, as Carl Sagan marveled, “What an astonishing thing a book is…...

With Glenn W. Turner at his Lake Mary, FL home. Glenn W. Turner was a controversial and charismatic man known as “the harelip son of a...

In his excellent book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows , John Koenig creates words by using combinations and fragments of Greek words...

A walk on a Lake Tahoe pier, especially at sunrise, inspires a reverence only the natural world can evoke. The imagery of the mountains...

Depending on your point of view, the world around you can seem like a dream or a nightmare worthy of a painter and poet like William...

Answering the call of generosity In one of his commencement speeches, Kurt Vonnegut said this to the freshly minted graduates: "You will...

Sometimes in life the script we’re given no longer fits the story we want to live. Illustration by Maurice Sendak in Robert Graves...

Teri Smith’s watercolors were featured in Moonshine Ink in November 2023, they caught my eye, and I wanted to see more. This led to a...

"I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." ~ Walt Whitman The Juniper Tree is a story by the Brothers...

Seven unforgettable moments on, under, and near the piers of Big Blue You feel a cosmic connection to something other-worldly when you...

I'm standing on the root of a Juniper Tree, my Journal open under the shade from its heavy, twisted branches stretching in every...

A teacher asked his grade-school students to draw a picture of a wolf. Their drawings all had wolves with sharp fangs and sinister eyes....

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are We study and read books not just to gain knowledge and ideas from other people, but to feed...

And the search for yūgen It's one thing to be amazed by a Gandalf or Dumbledore, wise sages and guides who don't exist; but it's quite...

Hacking our way through life in order to get ahead. Shortcuts and hook points and anything else we can do for an edge. It's a rush to the...

I hike alone up the mountains in my backyard. Deep in the woods. Sometimes at dawn and sometimes late in the day. I'm not afraid of the...

The Inspirational Story of Two-Time Olympian, Osvaldo Ancinas He's too humble to admit it, but Osvaldo's journey from his hometown of...

Black Wolf encounter in Olympic Valley, CA (June 17th, 2019 - 6:35pm) The interesting thing about finding yourself in a bad spot is you...