Til the Last Hemlock Dies

Ever since I got my first digital camera in 2004 I've been making short videos of the places I visit. I don't use the video option a...

The comic book gods were kind to me today because I received two books from two of the masters of comic book storytelling: Jack Kirby and St...

I love to go to bookstores. They are my favorite places to shop. I'm going to miss them when they're gone. Two nights ago I hit a ...

The two Golden Age comics by Jack Kirby that I bought online haven't arrived. Still in transit, apparently. Hope they come on Monday. ...

After the comic book red-scare frenzy of the middle 1950s, the Comics Code Authority was put in place and this pulled the teeth from a large...

If you knew how tired I was you'd tell me to go to sleep. Which I am going to do. So. Some photos. I have a couple of days off c...

Recently someone recommended that I read A WORKING STIFF'S MANIFESTO by Iain Levison. So I went to the Internet and located a copy and ...

For most of my hiking and backpacking career I kept hearing about this thing called "alpenglow". It apparently is this type of sun...

For about two weeks I was either hiking or backpacking in Colorado late in September 2012. It took me almost that long to acclimate to altit...

I'm gettin' old, folks. I can't do the letter-carrier deal and still come home and work on essays and fiction like I could in th...

I've been going over my Glacier National Park map and comparing notes with folk I know who hike there. What I've been searching for ...

I love digital cameras. It's one part of computer technology that I absolutely love. Digital cameras and high volume memory cards have g...

I spend a lot more time in the outdoors than most Americans. A lot more. One reason I go to Parks and wilderness areas is to find solitude...