Essays & Place
Before we learned to look down
The last time I truly learned a city's anatomy was fall 2004, those four months at UVic when I owned nothing with a screen. No laptop, no cell phone, not even a hand-me-down Nokia.
Essays
Essays & Place
Travel, memory, observation, and quieter essays about the physical texture of life.
Essays & Place
The journey from Liberia to Nosara
The journey from Liberia to Nosara is a kind of prelude—a two-hour stretch of road that forces you to leave behind any neat, tidy expectations you had about Costa Rica.
Essays & Place
The Thenar Eminence
In everything, there's this mechanical feeling—a patterning you almost never think about, unless you force yourself to. Life, it turns out, is governed by these little, unnoticed forces and movements that pile up in the background.