"To walk out of our houses and beyond our city limits is to shuck off the pretense and assumptions that we otherwise live by. This is how we open ourselves to brave new notions or independent attitudes. This is how we come to know our own minds" 

Here's a short read about the long history of the Hayward Fault line.

Here's a compelling look at the [humble?] earthquake.

“When that tsunami is coming, you run,” Jay Wilson, the chair of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission (OSSPAC), says. “You protect yourself, you don’t turn around, you don’t go back to save anybody. You run for your life.”

When I read these tales I always wonder if there are any plans to add some kind of cell tower coverage along the trail. I suspect not considering the area needed for a single cell tower.

I'm not a birder - but I love Ivory-Billed Woodpecker quest stories

In the Land of Missing Persons



Mo(u)ld is the subject of the first episode of the latest podcast from Gimlet Media: Surprisingly Awesome. Points off for using the tediously ubiquitous 'a' word, but it's enlightening, engaging and contains a rather delightful twist in the tail.

Sharing my latest #longread for Narratively (hope that is cool!) on the curious world of NYC's most diehard turtle and tortoise lovers and the annual Best in Show they compete in. Like a Christopher Guest movie, but real. I hope you enjoy it.