Scrapwood fire in firepit in foreground. Long view of Paradise Valley with low clouds.

Getting Dirty

Material Entanglement in the Anthropocene

  • Ordinary Violences

    Ordinary Violences

    Roadkill I had to stop this morning on my way into town to move a dead owl off the road. I nearly didn’t, but I couldn’t stand leaving it there. So I turned around, came back to park where I usually walk Hank, found some gloves in the back of the car and walked nervously…

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  • On Hope and Ice

    On Hope and Ice

    Hello hello faithful readers, I am back, for what I hope will be monthly dispatches to you all once again. I have finished my book manuscript, and it is out on submission at a couple of different places and with a few different agents, so let’s all take a moment to think good thoughts for…

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  • Terrestrial Sourdough: Thinking through Bread

    Terrestrial Sourdough: Thinking through Bread

    This piece ran on the Dark Mountain site in early 2023, but since it’s not currently available on their site, and since I was chit-chatting with someone online about it this afternoon, I thought I’d run it here for whatever the internet version of posterity is. It’s a piece I’m quite fond of, and I…

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