In a Dry Country

Recently I was at Peetair's enjoying homemade pizza baked in his outdoor oven. We were sitting around a wrought-iron table on his patio....

Just south of Tucson is a landscape made up of soft hills, oak, and grass. It looks a lot like the landscape of Santa Barbara, California, o...

From Superior, one can drive for less than an hour and a half and be at the trailhead of Aravaipa Canyon. That's what I did only a few d...

In Tucson it was over 100 miserable degrees and the sun was troublesome. My friend Lo insisted on driving me up into the Catalina Mountains ...

Fuck, says I. Will the United States EVER live up to its self-vaunted moral superiority? Why do we ever use a meaningless word like "fr...

Yeah, it's been fiercely hot here for a week now. This part of Arizona has been experiencing daily temperatures of over 110° which, as y...

Who says humans are the most special organisms in the world? Oh, that's right, we do. We claim to have souls. If that isn't an ego-...