I was a little afraid to return to Frenchglen, because the winds of change have caused havoc everywhere. I nurse poignant memories from times I was here–2006, 1997, 1993–with my…

Idaho is apparently a fake Shoshone name made up by a mining lobbyist. I went to sleep last night by the side of a highway in Wyoming imagining the word…

Have you heard the term ‘escape velocity’? It’s about 59 miles per hour. Or less, as Janet chugged up and over the Cascade Mountains yesterday. Everything I thought I might…