What's the difference between "hiking" and "fieldwork?"

The Sagebrush Ocean is fast becoming the cheatgrass sea.

That’s my goal, a journey through life to eliminate bad writing from the world.

I get my best pictures when I’m behind the scenes, off to the side.

And so what are we going to do?

Once I realized what day I would be telling my story, I knew exactly what story I would tell.

A remarkable Day of the Dead.

VoyageUtah and Shoutout LA profiled Steve as an “inspiring entrepreneur and creative.” Really??!

“The Best Books about Utah Canyon Country?” How did I choose?

In our months of Covid lockdown, my wife and I watch a movie or TV episode each night. We have the time. Streaming unfurls a wider world, far beyond the two of us. We’ve sailed through quarantine companioned by these vivid characters on our laptop screens. Some, we’ve already forgotten. Some will stay with us forever, held close with great affection.

To celebrate Utah’s 125th anniversary, the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts invited writers to capture a telling Utah story in 125 words. I love these Zen exercises in concise writing, so I submitted a fistful of possibilities. The discerning editor, Ellen Weist, chose “Shoreline Trail, Solstice,” for the online collection. Here’s my full submission — celebrating my two home territories, the Wasatch Front and the redrock canyons.

Stephen Colbert joked in mid-September about Joe Biden being so cool (in an old-guy way) that he hopped “into the sidecar of Steve McQueen’s motorcycle and jumped a fence.”

Remember when she almost met Frank Sinatra

On riding the rewriting rollercoaster

How Cheryl Strayed and I both hiked through wildness and solitude—and found our families on the other side