Why I Keep Paper Maps in a Digital World
There’s something GPS will never give you. It starts with getting lost — genuinely, unhelpfully lost — in a place that doesn’t care whether you find your way back.
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From the Blog
Field notes, process thoughts, and dispatches from wherever I’ve been reading or walking lately.
How I Draft an Essay About a Place I’ve Never Been
Research, imagination, and the ethics of writing distant landscapes. When does imagination become appropriation, and how do you know the difference before you publish?
Read →Five Books That Changed How I Read Landscape
From Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost to Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks — the books that made me see terrain as text.
Read →Notes from the Salton Sea
A shrinking inland lake in the California desert. The smell of salt and decay, the ghost towns of mid-century optimism, and what it means when a place is already disappearing.
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