The Salton Sea is always described as a monumental engineer’s mistake. Over a hundred years ago, somebody accidentally diverted all of the Colorado River into a dry basin in California.…

I woke up this morning in a soft bed in the guest room of a long-lost fourth cousin. While in Oregon, about two years ago, a man I’d never heard…

Nothing is as it seems–nor is it otherwise. Someone once told me the latter half of that phrase was a Zen koan. I can’t corroborate that. But after spending over…