Brits in the USA

It's more than a week into the A to Z challenge and I'm already seriously behind. I started behind and I'm behind more. I'm ...

Douthat is one of America's great parks. It's probably less dramatic than the Grand Canyon but your chances of dying here are signif...

I used to like Charlottesville. Then it lost its innocence.  I heard people say a similar thing after the Virginia city became a bywor...

I struggled to think of a city I had visited beginning with B. This was curious because I lived in Birmingham for the first seven years...

Entering the A to Z Challenge late at night was obviously a foolhardy thing to do. But it was fun back in the day, right? When I had time an...

I hadn't looked at my global warming novella for a while but recent events led me to revisit it. Since writing it for the A-Z challenge ...

There's a song by The Stranglers called Whatever Happened to the Heroes. It describes how Leon Trotsky "got an ice pick that made ...

You have to drive all the way through Arches National Park to get to Devil's Garden but it is far from undiscovered. The trail from the ...

The desert can be an unforgiving place. Still, there are times in your life when you crave extremes. When I headed to Moab, I wanted to be ...

Back east hemmed in by the heat, the tall buildings and trees teeming with insects, I often think of the west and its honey-colored canyons....

In 2011, I wrote in this blog about how it was time to defriend Mark Zuckerberg and surgically remove Facebook from our lives. Facebook, I...