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  • 31 and Kicking Ass

    31 and Kicking Ass

    I spent the last day of my twenties hiking down a sandstone ridge to the Colorado River with a paddle in hand and a packraft in my backpack. Jaden and I descended around 750 feet down an exposed “trail” so we could float the last fifteen miles of Glen Canyon to Lee’s Ferry, having no…

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  • The Search for Ian: 3 Years Later

    The Search for Ian: 3 Years Later

    More than three years have passed since I dialed 911 and declared Ian (my partner at the time) as a missing person. He went for a run in the La Plata mountains in southwestern Colorado and climbed to the summit of Hesperus, a mountain over 13,000 feet.  When the sun set and he wasn’t back…

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  • Graduation Commencement Speech at Western Colorado University

    Graduation Commencement Speech at Western Colorado University

    In July, I graduated my M.F.A. program at Western Colorado University with a master’s degree in creative writing and a concentration of nature writing. I was thrilled and honored to be selected as the student commencement speaker. The speech was not recorded, so I thought I’d share it here. When I was a kid, I…

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