Welcome to the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and the human experience. Self, Made: Exploring You in a World of We was a summer-long exhibition inviting “visitors to explore how we form and perform identity through dozens of new interactive exhibit experiences, works of...
It's hard for me to believe that I'm included with 34 amazing scholars-writers like Jared Farmer, Gregg Mitman, Monica Martinez, and so many more. I'm still pinching myself! ...
TRACE Wins Creative Writing Book Award from ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment If anyone has mastered the art of being in two places at the same time, please let me know! ASLE just honored me by giving TRACE its biennial Creative Writing...
Catching Up on April - My visit to Kenyon College and the Kenyon Review earlier this month was a true gift. I met amazing students, gave a reading/talk to a generous audience, and shared the bill (science writing symposium) with Andrea Wulf. Wonderful faculty and...
Thank you, Justin Desmangles. I didn’t expect this. To be in the company of writers of such beautiful and powerful words is a gift; to be chosen and celebrated by the founders and board members of the Before Columbus Foundation on its 40th anniversary is a...
Last night Terry Tempest Williams gave me the honor of asking me to share her reading event with her. Terry is on tour with The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks for this centennial of the National Park Service. With gracious...
It's a great honor to be asked by editor Stephen Trimble & publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen to join three generations of voices speaking on behalf of Utah's wild lands and against a dangerous congressional bill (the Public Lands Initiative) in RED ROCK TESTIMONY: THREE GENERATIONS...
Have you ever been in a conversation with other people where words and ideas flowed easily among you, insight triggering insight? This was the case with Faith Adiele, Elmaz Abinader, and me at our public event at the Bay Area Book Festival on Saturday. An...
Following the ceremony welcoming the Hōkūleʻa and its crew from Hawai'i to Piscataway tribal homeland, I thought of ironies of history. The event took place on Piscataway tribal homeland in Piscataway Park. There the National Park Service works in partnership with the Accokeek Foundation, which...
May 3rd: The Three Circles Center (an international network for multicultural environmental education), with Running Grass and Barbara Elizabeth Bolles, hosted an incredible day in Portland of meeting and being in dialogue with environmental justice, social justice, and environmental education leaders from the EPA, the...