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Bad Date Ideas in Boston

13 Jan 202517 Jan 2025
I met Amy on the subway from Boston’s Logan Airport. I struck up a conversation with her son (6 years old?) and asked him to guess what was in my…
packraft…

American Whitewater Safety Code

27 Dec 202427 Dec 2024
It was an honor to be part of the team that revised American Whitewater's Safety Code—and a very welcome opportunity to get paid to write! Sarah Glaser won the contract…
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Rocked and Iced: A Chitina River Cookie Heist

30 Oct 202430 Oct 2024
I joined six other storytellers on the Bear Tooth stage last week as part of a fundraiser for Healthy Futures. I told this story from our 2012 trip from Yakutat…
writing

An Empty Freezer: McGrath, 2024

4 Oct 202412 Mar 2025
Here's how it goes. The sky clears as you fly north, but not in time to reveal more than the tops of Foraker and Denali—sharp white teeth above a blanket…
writing

Cosmic support: Pavement, Lofoten, 1999.

23 Jan 202326 Jan 2023
A participant in the Start & End at Home course drew a very creative multisport route (hike, packraft, paraglide, climb) through Lofoten, Norway. The route passes through the region where…
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