When I was a young lad, I accompanied my professor on a trip to Argonne National Lab to assist with his mission to take pictures of dirt. The lab is home to the Advanced Photon Source (APS), basically the electrons…
Film Photos
Lately I’ve been messing around with a Canon A-1 film camera that I picked up at Dexter’s in Ventura. I walked in their shop one day and said I wanted to monkey around with a film camera, and the owner…
Enormocast
In an era when everyone seems to have a podcast, this is my favorite. Simple, intimate interviews with climbers without any gimmicks. An English teacher told me writers enjoy nothing more than writing about writing. I think the same could…
Squawking Crow
Culvert Inspection in Sonoma County 31 January 2017 The winter of 2017 brought a tremendous amount of water to California. This caused the state to become concerned about the continued performance of culverts along a stretch of US-101 in Sonoma…
Wisconsin Band
Beep Beep Beep Beep. The piercing siren of my alarm clock jars me awake. It’s still dark, and I stumble around my room trying to turn it off. I can’t believe it’s even morning yet. It doesn’t feel like morning. I…
Zion Road Trip
This is a short story about our road trip to Zion National Park in the early summer of 2011. Cris, Dan, and I were living in a ram-shacked old house on Lathrop Street in Madison at the time. Cris and…